Fontconfig oddness
Posted: 2020/05/21 23:20:36
Today Inkscape 1.0 was installed (from their site) on CentOS 8. When it runs this happens:
The system has these RPMS installed:
The first one was for some piece of 32 bit software. Searching for those error messages turned up a lot of Ubuntu examples, like this one:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1098809 ... fontconfig
Which said that the problem was with 2.13. Solutions generally involved finding some way to use an earlier configuration file (like from 2.12) or reinstalling. I tried to fix it with:
and that ran without problems, but the problem remained.
Is this a known problem with CentOS 8?
Thanks,
David Mathog
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inkscape
Run experimental bundle that bundles everything
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
(etc.)
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fontconfig-2.13.1-3.el8.i686
fontconfig-devel-2.13.1-3.el8.x86_64
fontconfig-2.13.1-3.el8.x86_64
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1098809 ... fontconfig
Which said that the problem was with 2.13. Solutions generally involved finding some way to use an earlier configuration file (like from 2.12) or reinstalling. I tried to fix it with:
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dnf reinstall fontconfig-2.13.1-3.el8.x86_64
Is this a known problem with CentOS 8?
Thanks,
David Mathog