open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2939, ...}) = 0
-read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2939
-read(3, "", 4096) = 0
+read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 1024) = 1024
+read(3, "nd for the time being for\n# back"..., 1024) = 1024
+read(3, "59-1\ngalego\t\tgl_ES.ISO-8859-1\nga"..., 1024) = 891
+read(3, "", 1024) = 0
close(3) = 0
first major difference: locale not set.
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On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote:
>> deloptes composed on 2018-06-03 09:26 (UTC+0200):
>>
>>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>
>>>> you could instead put the two files side-by-side in xterms
>>>> of identical height and do page-down page-down page-down instead.
>>
>>> there is kdiff3 for that
>>
>> It does a nice job of showing off differences. I see lots of differences related
>> to which fonts are or are not installed, and the different hostnames and various
>> addresses, but I fail to ID any missing bit to ID why 760's 'tdecmshell fonts'
>> fails and 780's succeeds.
>
> you'll be looking for the first "major" obvious difference. "the
> font is missing" is f****g useless: you already know that. it will be
> something like a directory name, or a .so missing, or a .so loaded
> from a *different directory* or... a config file that is missing or...
> basically something right at the start.
>
> by the time you get to "the fonts are not loaded"... well... you
> already know that, so you're clearly *not* looking for that...
>
> ... *UNLESS*....
>
> the locations where each system is *looking* for the fonts is
> different. *that* is something you will want to know.
>
> track and *interpret* the differences... don't just go "errr there are
> differences". work backwards for what the *important* differences
> are.
>
> l.