[SOLVED] Fontconfig warning: "local.conf"

Hello Folks,
every software I run from the terminal shows me a long list of the same message, before to run.
Here an example:
skype
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 82: invalid attribute 'target'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 85: invalid attribute 'target'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 181: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 194: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 213: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 229: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 291: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 426: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 530: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 544: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 558: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 614: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 628: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 635: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 229: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 291: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 426: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 530: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 544: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 558: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 614: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 628: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 635: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 642: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 656: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 663: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 687: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 706: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 730: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 742: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 749: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 756: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 776: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 799: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 806: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 813: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 833: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 879: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 903: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 916: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 931: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 943: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 959: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 966: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 973: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 992: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 1009: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 1026: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1290: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 1293: invalid attribute 'target'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1316: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1524: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 1527: invalid attribute 'target'
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1537: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1654: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1871: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1905: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1937: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 1985: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
How could I solve it?
Last edited by Astroarch (2014-09-11 17:56:30)

Then , I solved deleting the file and reinstalling fontconfig.
Byt he way, I do not post in the forum to be joked, if you mean to answer in such a way, better do not post at all.
Thanks
Last edited by Astroarch (2014-09-11 17:56:07)

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mv .fonts.conf .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
mkdir .config/fontconfig/conf.d
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf .config/fontconfig/conf.d ## Though this wasn't really necessary.
Moved all cache files from .config/fontconfig (formerly ~/.fontconfig) to ~/.cache, as suggested in the wiki.
And I copied this in my fonts.conf (.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf), examples you can also find in the wiki:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="pixelsize" qual="any" compare="more"><double>15</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="slant" compare="not_eq"><double>0</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Now my fonts look like before, and Chromium looks even better, thanks to one of the examples found.

No local.conf in /etc/fonts

trying to get additioanl fonts and making everything look great but no local.conf in the above location!!
Where did it go, how do I generate a new one, or do I have to write it from scratch?

OK....now you confused me. is Locale.conf just a simulink to another file/location? I just pacmaned ttf and would like to utilize them. On top of this, there are a couple of modifications to the above file that are recommended for LCD monitors to reduce fuzziness.
Should there be a general unmodified version to work from, or is it written from scratch?

[Solved] Cannot set locale (at first)

I don't think this is due to some trivial mistake (but then again, I've been wrong before). Anyway, I moved my system to systemd, and in /etc/locale.conf I have the following:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
In /etc/locale.gen I have the following locales selected:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT ISO-8859-1
pt_PT@euro ISO-8859-15
When running locale-gen, I get the following output:
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
pt_PT.UTF-8... done
pt_PT.ISO-8859-1... done
pt_PT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
Generation complete.
However, after rebooting (I boot to console, no display manager), and logging in console, the locale that is set is POSIX! I start X with the following command (aliased in .bashrc):
. /etc/locale.conf ; export LANG ; exec nohup startx > /dev/null &vlock
And after doing that, the locale, both in X and in console, is set to the correct one! (en_US.UTF-8)
Am I making a newbie mistake somewhere?
Last edited by gauthma (2013-05-16 19:31:28)

Just a 2 cent coin from me -- maybe it helps someone...
After the filesystem upgrade, the /etc/profile.d/locale.sh file disappeared from my hdd (nothing fishy here: sometimes odd things happen and it's enough to re-run update to fix them). Before I realized that, I lost my default locales (en_US.UTF-8) and after issuing 'locale', I got the same output as the OP ("POSIX" from top to bottom). I was trying to use $HOME/.config/locale.conf file, but nothing expected ever happened, and the only way to make things work my way was to export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in good old $HOME/.profile. When I eventually updated the filesystem correctly and /etc/profile.d/locale.sh was brought back, I realized that $HOME/.config/locale.conf won't work without it as this is where the relevant variable is set:
if [ -n "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && [ -r "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf" ]; then
. "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf"
elif [ -n $HOME ] && [ -r $HOME/.config/locale.conf ]; then
. "$HOME/.config/locale.conf"
elif [ -r /etc/locale.conf ]; then
. /etc/locale.conf
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
LANG=$(. /etc/rc.conf 2>/dev/null; echo "$LOCALE")
fi
Ergo: if your system hasn't been informed to use $HOME/.config/locale.conf anywhere in a system-wide context, the local file won't work. Simple and logical.
Last edited by bohoomil (2012-08-31 13:04:37)

[SOLVED] vsftpd on Local Mirror, running but not working

I'm building a Local Mirror on a vm (vbox) with bridged adapter and fix-ip by following this wiki.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Loc … cal_mirror
After the painful rsync and those setup, I tried pacman -Syu from another Arch vm (no firewall). I received the following error.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from 192.168.100.100 : Service not available, closing control connection
I've tried by nmap on the hosting PC and find that the vsftpd should be running.
Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-27 01:03 HKT
Interesting ports on 192.168.100.100:
Not shown: 1714 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
MAC Address: 08:00:27:76:33:1C (Cadmus Computer Systems)
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.318 seconds
In the wiki, it suggests to use "ftp" to replace "mirror" for ftp_username & nopriv_user. I tried both.
I also find that there is no "archlinux" under my /home/mirror/files as "suggested" by the following statement in vsftpd.conf
# Chroot directory for anonymous user
anon_root=/home/mirror/files/archlinux
I tried both (1) amend the vsftpd.conf to remove the "archlinux", and (2) manually add that directory with owner/group=mirror.
Meanwhile, I only find under /home/mirror/files 6 items - community core extra community.lastsync core.lastsync extra.lastsync. Have I completed the rsync successfully? Or, something is missing. Is the directory structure correct?
Is the sample vsftpd.conf in the Local Mirror wiki updated? I've cross reference it with the vsftpd wiki but I'm not knowledgable enough to find things useful.
What else should I check?
I love ArchLinux so much that I really hope that it can work.
Please help.
Thanks.
Last edited by dboat (2010-08-27 15:38:14)

I have tried couple of Linux distro to learn Linux/Network. I like ArchLinux's "simple" concept, light weight, updated packages, nice document and fast bootup/shutdown. I have installed over ten times ArchLinux in different virtualmachines and netbook in the past week. I will keep some, delete some and create more. I don't have a fast internet connection and that's why I would like to set up my local mirror. I am a newbie here, so please feel free to let me know if I am taking too much (bandwidth) from the community, and it is not encouraged for my case. And sorry if I have already created any trouble.
Well, back to my problem.
1. After the rsync, including everything, the / now occupies 14G harddisk space. Is it a normal size for a local mirror?
2. I have inserted "Server = file:///home/mirror/files/$repo/os/i686" as the first line in its /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacman -Syy looks fine.
pacman -Syu gives a list of warning (xxx: local is newer than core), end with "there is nothing to do"
pacman -S mplayer starts installtion normally, but need mirrors on internet cause a large portion of software is missing/inaccessible on my local mirror.
3. I have tried to login by FileZilla from an Ubuntu vm, and receive this error message (on FileZilla)
Status: Connecting to 192.168.100.100:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 421 Service not available.
Error: Could not connect to server
Seems I have issues on both the mirror and the vsftpd. I prefer to resolve the vsftpd problem first, but all suggestion/comment are very welcome.
Lastly, did I post my question in a wrong place? If yes, please let me know.

[SOLVED] Fontconfig warning: "local.conf"

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