[Fontconfig] fontconfig configuration file

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

>> That makes me think that you have multiple libfontconfig installed -- some 
>> using non-existent config.
>
> I did a locate and there is only one libfontconfig on my system.

locate doesn't tell you what is currently on your system -- unless you 
rebuild the locate database immediately before running locate.

>>  strings /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so | egrep "/.*(conf|font)"
>> 
>> Or wherever your libfontconfig is at.
>> 
>> That worked for me on two systems to show where my configuration directory 
>> was at.
>
> It returns
> /fonts.cache-1
> ~/.fonts.cache-1
> /etc/fonts
> /usr/share/fonts
>
> there is a config file in /etc/fonts, but not in /usr/share/fonts, that 
> directory doesn't exist.
>
> what to do now?

Use strace -f to follow all children. (Be sure to capture stderr.) And 
then search through the tens of thousands of lines for what triggered the 
error.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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