[Fontconfig] Problems with configuring fontconfig

[Greg Jones]

Keith Packard wrote:

>Around 15 o'clock on Apr 1, Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:
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>>No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
>>library is not correctly configured. You may need to
>>edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
>>about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
>>page and on http://fontconfig.org
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>This is most likely caused by broken files holding cached information 
>about the available fonts.  You should be able to fix this by running (as 
>root):
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># fc-cache -f
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>and then as yourself:
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>$ fc-cache -f
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>-keith
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I have found that by removing the fonts.cache-1 file from all 
directories ( e.g. /usr/share/fonts )
except /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{TTF, Type1}, and then running fc-cache 
on the directories
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{TTF, Type1}  can resolve this problem.

Regards,