[Fontconfig] fontconfig configuration file

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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.

I did a rebuild of the db.
> 
>>>  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.

When I do that I get a fatal error that X cannot copy its old log file 
to .old... I don't know why, but it really is the -f switch that causes 
the error.

> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
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