Hi, This may miss the mark wildly, but I remember having trouble with fontconfig in a container a few months ago and solving it with --emulate-fhs maybe this is worth a try.
Cheers, Edouard. Simen Endsjø <cont...@simendsjo.me> writes: > Hi, I'm packaging a piece of software which crashes when launching > chromium embedded framework. > > The error is > Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) > > I found a similar issue for Nix which suggests the error is caused by > fontconfig not being installed globally and suggests a patch: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/176081#issuecomment-1145903568 > > I tried creating a symlink at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, but while I get > further, it still crashes. > > sudo ln -s ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf > > Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration. > Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> > Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir prefix="xdg">fontconfig</cachedir> > Trace/breakpoint trap > > /var/cache/fontconfig is on a read-only filesystem, so I cannot > experiment with adding it there. > > I tried adding all fonts and fontconfig to my system configuration, but > this didn't generate /etc/fonts/fonts.conf nor /var/cache/fontconfig/*. > > Unfortunately, I haven't been able to test the Nix patch as my naive `-L > ~/code/guix` fails to compile various modules. > > Any input before I spent a lot of time trying to get this Nix patch working?
