08-20-2020, 02:39 AM
I had the same problem on one of my systems,
where Gimp 2.8 was the version made available
by the package manager. I tried to solve it by
building my own Gimp from source; that led to
other problems, described in a different posting
to this forum. I solved my original problem after
noting that I had 2 different versions of fontconfig.so
and that ldconfig was, apparently, preferring the one
that didn't work with Gimp 2.8; all I had to do was
invoke gimp with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable that
led to the dynamic linking with the other fontconfig.so.
Your symptoms may have a different cause, and I
make no promises, of course, that what solved the
problem for me will work for you.
jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us
where Gimp 2.8 was the version made available
by the package manager. I tried to solve it by
building my own Gimp from source; that led to
other problems, described in a different posting
to this forum. I solved my original problem after
noting that I had 2 different versions of fontconfig.so
and that ldconfig was, apparently, preferring the one
that didn't work with Gimp 2.8; all I had to do was
invoke gimp with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable that
led to the dynamic linking with the other fontconfig.so.
Your symptoms may have a different cause, and I
make no promises, of course, that what solved the
problem for me will work for you.
jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us