read(5, "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<!DOCTYPE "..., 8192) = 3364
 read(5, "", 8192)                       = 0
 close(5)                                = 0
-getrandom("\xd8\xfc\x79\x69\xc3\xed\x3f\x71", 8, GRND_NONBLOCK) = 8
-stat("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=517, ...}) = 0
-stat("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=517, ...}) = 0
-access("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf", R_OK) = 0
-stat("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=517, ...}) = 0
-openat(AT_FDCWD, "/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
-read(5, "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE "..., 8192) = 517
-read(5, "", 8192)                       = 0
-close(5)                                = 0
-getrandom("\x20\xa3\xc2\x43\x63\x24\x77\xb2", 8, GRND_NONBLOCK) = 8
-access("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf", R_OK) = 0
+getrandom("\xb3\x97\xce\xa5\xef\x3f\xce\xd0", 8, GRND_NONBLOCK) = 8
+stat("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
0x7fff190f8e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+stat("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf",
0x7fff190f8e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+access("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf", R_OK) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+access("/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf", R_OK) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)

second major difference:
/root/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf is not empty on one of
the systems.

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On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl@...> wrote:
>  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.