Bug#271499: Reproduced
Just a note that I reproduced this installing Etch d-i beta2, while
installing x-window-system-core. Here is an approximate log of the
context in which this happened. I meant to join dpkg's log, but I
unfortunately reinstalled over that install and lost that log, so this
may be not as helpful as I wish it would be. I did the reinstall I just
mentionned partly to try to reproduce this, but I was unable to. I tried
breaking up x-window-system-core's install in parts to identify a
smaller set of possibly culprit packages. Installing ttf-bitstream-vera
first did not show the error as I expected.
Configuring xfonts-base
Configuring xfonts-100dpi
Configuring xfonts-75dpi
Configuring xfonts-scalable
Updating font configuration of fontconfig...
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Cleaning up category type1..
Updating category type1..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..
Configuring perl-modules
Configuring perl
Configuring defoma
Configuring ttf-bitstream-vera
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
Regenerating fonts cache... done.
I remember that fontconfig's configuration happened after this.
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