Did a prelink -a of my binaries today -- only thing I can think that might have changed things(?)

Now am getting:

gvim

Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

And nothing comes up (though I do see >400% cpu usage ... (a copyt of terminal, 2 copies of gvim, and a plx media server...) plex media server is scanning media, so that's expected... but terminal and editors taking 300% cpu...??

strace shows WEIRD stuff:

Where... hmm... [pid 52836] access("/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/Toolbar/inline-toolbar.png ", F_OK) = 0 [pid 52836] access("/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/Others/null.png", F_OK) = 0 [pid 52836] read(3, "t"\nwidget_class "*<GtkComboBoxEn"..., 4000) = 2330 [pid 52836] read(3, "", 4000) = 0 [pid 52836] close(3) = 0 [pid 52836] access("/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_US", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 52836] access("/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 52836] brk(0xa2a000) = 0xa2a000 [pid 52836] access("/data/jenkins/pms-deps-universal/BUILD_TAG/linux-ubuntu-x86_64/output/pms-depends-linux-ubuntu-x86_64-release-ac8673c/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 52836] write(2, "Fontconfig error: ", 18Fontconfig error: ) = 18 [pid 52836] write(2, "Cannot load default config file", 31Cannot load default config file) = 31 [pid 52836] write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 [pid 52836] stat("/usr/share/fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 [pid 52836] open("/data/jenkins/pms-deps-universal/BUILD_TAG/linux-ubuntu-x86_64/output/pms-depends-linux-ubuntu-x86_64-release-ac8673c/var/cache/fontconfig/3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-le64.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such fil

---- I wasn't aware of ubuntu stuff on here ... i hate the new font system...

Each start of gvim displays can't find config and takes several minutes to create a temp copy...

:-(

Any idea what whent missing?