Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object weight does not accept value [0 205)

[LouBerry]

Wanted to try Olivia snap package latest version on manjaro

Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.72.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 Kernel Version: 5.4.44-1-MANJARO OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

Won't start with message:

Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object weight does not accept value [0 205)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any idea, what could cause this issue.

[keshavbhatt]

try to delete ~/snap/olivia and restart app.

[LouBerry]

already tried, doesn't change, reinstall same issue

[keshavbhatt]

Try this https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia/issues/95#issuecomment-774747492

[LouBerry]

alright... tried the what you mentioned without success, so I build the project from source and this works just fine

It seems that I have a specific problem with snap packages, other snap apps having issues with fonts as well, like just displaying blocks instead of letters.

So not really solved but I think we can close here.

By the way: I love that you stick with qt and not just doing another bloated electron/V8 app :+1: keep up the good work

[montvid]

to fix the crash do:

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

run olivia

[orimdominic]

@montvid Thank you very much for the solution. After installing some fonts from cancng/fonts, my VLC mediaplayer was not starting and I was getting the error

VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.18-0-ge9eceaed4d)
[00005594cf2b6b40] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object weight does not accept value [50 200)
[1]    19716 segmentation fault (core dumped)  vlc

whenever I run the vlc command.

Your solution fixed it for me 🙌🏽 Just putting this here for someone else

[danielricecodes]

Googled a

to fix the crash do:

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

run olivia

This worked for me after googling a vlc related issue on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic).

~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 23.10
Release:    23.10
Codename:   mantic
~ $ vlc --version
VLC media player 3.0.19 Vetinari (revision 3.0.19-0-g32b50de2a2)

Now VLC opens again no problems :tada:

[gavrilovegor519]

to fix the crash do:

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

run olivia

Now Snap VLC is working on my Fedora 40 Workstation :)