On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Rich Shepard wrote:
When I shut down X Windows on the Slackware64-14.2 desktop, among all the
notices on the console are a bunch related to fonts. They start as:
fontconfig error line 162: mismatched tag
cannot load default file
The last line is repeated multiple times.
This same error just popped up when I ran a small PyQt5 app.
Ha! Fixed it. A web search brought me to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf which has
this heading:
<!--
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED.
LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'
-->
so I didn't look at it.
There is no local.conf so I looked at line 162 in fonts.conf and found
</blank> at the end of a long list of the default Unicode chars that are
expected to be blank in fonts. But the XML header for that list was a
comment <!-- blank --> instead of <blank>. Removing the comment chars fixed
the problem.
Sheesh!
Rich
