I'm running old Ubuntu Server 13.04 (raring), and trying to upgrade or even install any packages I'm getting the following error:
root@oem-mobilidade:~# sudo apt-get upgrade -y Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto Construindo árvore de dependências Lendo informação de estado... Pronto 0 pacotes atualizados, 0 pacotes novos instalados, 0 a serem removidos e 0 não atualizados. 1 pacotes não totalmente instalados ou removidos. Depois desta operação, 0 B adicionais de espaço em disco serão usados. Configurando fontconfig (2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1) ... Regenerating fonts cache... failed. See /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information. dpkg: error processing package fontconfig (--configure): sub-processo script post-installation instalado retornou estado de saída de erro 1 Erros foram encontrados durante o processamento de: fontconfig E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@oem-mobilidade:~# cat /var/log/fontconfig.log /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 21 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory /usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /.local/share/fonts: fc-cache: symbol lookup error: fc-cache: undefined symbol: FcStrListFirst
PS: Sorry for the portuguese output.
I read some articles telling to purge fontconfig package and reinstalling it, but I'm afraid of doing this because of this:
The following packages will be REMOVED: ca-certificates-java* cacti* cacti-spine* default-jre-headless* fontconfig* fontconfig-config* icedtea-7-jre-jamvm* libcairo2* libfontconfig1* libgd2-xpm* libpango1.0-0* librrd4* libxft2* openjdk-7-jre-headless* php5-gd* rrdtool* tomcat7* tomcat7-admin* tomcat7-common* tomcat7-docs* tomcat7-examples*
This server runs several applications, like Cacti, and other web based tools that depends on apache, tomcat, php, etc, so I'm worried about removing those packages above.
Please, help!!!