Description of problem: These warnings were received during yum update 06-12-06 current rawhide. Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration. Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.4.2-1.fc7 How reproducible: yum update fontconfig Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: as above. Expected results: no warnings. Additional info: now when starting say kwrite from the command line the warning appears also.
Did you do something unusual to your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf?
No /etc/fonts/fonts.conf was not touched ? Peace was returned by adding the missing: <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> to ~/.fonts.conf as root and <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> for users rpm -q --scripts fontconfig [snip] # Remove stale caches rm -f /var/cache/fontconfig/????????????????????????????????.cache-2 This line doesn't match any cache files generated by fc-cache -f which are /var/cache/fontconfig/0251a5afa6ac727a1e32b7d4d4aa7cf0-x86.cache-2 /var/cache/fontconfig/1399483bfeade0272b0c045b84f9474c-x86.cache-2 /var/cache/fontconfig/3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-x86.cache-2 current rawhide fontconfig-2.4.2-2.fc7
(In reply to comment #2) > No /etc/fonts/fonts.conf was not touched ? > > Peace was returned by adding the missing: > <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> > to ~/.fonts.conf as root > and > <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> for users This means you have the old fonts.conf, not the one shipped with fontconfig-2.4 packages. > rpm -q --scripts fontconfig > [snip] > # Remove stale caches > rm -f /var/cache/fontconfig/????????????????????????????????.cache-2 > > This line doesn't match any cache files generated by fc-cache -f which are It's not supposed to. That is to remove caches generated by 2.3 versions of fontconfig, like those shipping in FC5. > /var/cache/fontconfig/0251a5afa6ac727a1e32b7d4d4aa7cf0-x86.cache-2 > /var/cache/fontconfig/1399483bfeade0272b0c045b84f9474c-x86.cache-2 > /var/cache/fontconfig/3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-x86.cache-2 > > current rawhide fontconfig-2.4.2-2.fc7 > >
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