Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.13.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #896684
I experience the same problem, with a similar setup -- albeit minor differences. The problem appears for a lot of applications run from the terminal, e.g. gitk. Following https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235643, I suspect that there is a dependency mismatch in fontconfig packages: $ LANG=C dpkg -l '*fontconfig*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=======================-================-================-==================================================== ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.7+b1 amd64 generic font configuration library - support binarie ii fontconfig-config 2.13.0-4 all generic font configuration library - configuration un libfontconfig <none> <none> (no description available) un libfontconfig-dev <none> <none> (no description available) ii libfontconfig1:amd64 2.12.6-0.1 amd64 generic font configuration library - runtime ii libfontconfig1:i386 2.12.6-0.1 i386 generic font configuration library - runtime ii libfontconfig1-dev:amd6 2.12.6-0.1 amd64 generic font configuration library - development regards, Damien -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (300, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-1 ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-2 ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8 ii ucf 3.0036 fontconfig-config recommends no packages. fontconfig-config suggests no packages. -- debconf information: fontconfig/hinting_type: Native fontconfig/hinting_style: hintslight fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false