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I'm running 12.10 on a VPS, and realizing it's not supported anymore, I tried upgrading. I followed a thread from the forum here, and did the following:

  1. Updated the sources.list file:

    ###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse

###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse

###### Ubuntu Partner Repo
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner

###### Ubuntu Extras Repo
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main

deb http://repo.ajenti.org/debian main main

  2. Ran sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade -y

  3. This failed, complaining about fontconfig:

    Setting up fontconfig (2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1) ...
Regenerating fonts cache... failed.
See /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package fontconfig (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up apt-utils (1.0.1ubuntu2.6) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
fontconfig
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  4. cat /var/log/fontconfig.log gives me:

    /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: 6 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

I tried purging and re-installing fontconfig, calling fc-cache -f to rebuild the cache, but it doesn't help. Any ideas?

Thanks, Ivan

igalic
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  • Changing the sources list file is not the way to update Ubuntu, even less to jump between releases. – xangua Jan 22 '15 at 21:20
  • :( I searched for how to upgrade and found this link where I followed the first answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/501746/i-need-help-solving-upgrade-problem-fetching-upgrade-failed-12-04-to-12-10/501784 Is there a way to fix this or roll back? – igalic Jan 23 '15 at 09:35
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    I removed fontconfig-config with purge, and after that everything started working... – igalic Jan 23 '15 at 10:32
  • Could you please convert your last comment to an answer so that schmucks like me who go around hunting for unanswered questions don't have to look at this one any more. ;-) (And I'll upvote if you drop me a note and it's a good one too!) – Fabby Jan 25 '15 at 09:32
  • Sorry it took me a while, I hope it helps! – igalic Feb 02 '15 at 13:07

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I removed fontconfig-config with purge, and after that everything started working:

apt-get remove --purge fontconfig-config
igalic
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    Going through my "schmucks" answers that didn't get any upvotes... So finally you got one! ;-) – Fabby Jun 02 '15 at 17:58