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[Bug 1492767] Re: gdk-pixbuf packages update breaks the GUI in Trusty 14.04.3

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From: Mélodie <meets@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:10:35 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1492767 <1492767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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** Description changed:

Hello,

- I did a fresh install with a Trusty 14.04.3 (x86_64) yesterday, and
- today, I updated the system (with the console, because other issues came
- first which led me to do a filesystem check). Then I started Synaptic,
- and oops! no GUI, only the borders of the window would show. Several
- other programs were affected and would not start (Geany, text editor),
- or show their content. After tests and research it appeared only GTK3
- programs were affected. If using a theme with GTK2, or move the GTK
- configuration out of the way, the programs would work.
+ I did a fresh install with a Trusty 14.04.3 (x86_64) yesterday (custom
+ Bento Openbox), and today, I updated the system (with the console,
+ because other issues came first which led me to do a filesystem check).
+ Then I started Synaptic, and oops! no GUI, only the borders of the
+ window would show. Several other programs were affected and would not
+ start (Geany, text editor), or show their content. After tests and
+ research it appeared only GTK3 programs were affected. If using a theme
+ with GTK2, or move the GTK configuration out of the way, the programs
+ would work.

The upgrade contained the following packages:
gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0_2.30.7
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.30.7
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common_2.30.7

I fixed the issue by booting to the Live USB I had used to install, and
repackage the programs with dpkg-repack, then reinstalled them using
"sudo dpkg -i *.deb". (copied from the live usb to the home in the
install, rebooted and reinstalled there).

Problem solved for this install, where I have for now blocked the update
for these three packages.

At post-install, after I had updated, I had the same message as the people who reported that bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/1282294

****
(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:29671): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

This likely means that your installation is broken.
Try running the command
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
to make things work again for the time being.
****

and when trying to do so, the console returned a message stating gdk-
pixbuf-query-loaders was not installed. (no such package in the repos
either).

More information can be found at
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/09/06/%23ubuntu-bugs.html

where I discussed about this bug and my findings.

Now I will try to produce this bug again in the Live USB (which has no
persistence).

Best regards,
Mélodie

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1492767

Title:
gdk-pixbuf packages update breaks the GUI in Trusty 14.04.3

Status in gdk-pixbuf package in Ubuntu:
New

Bug description:
Hello,

I did a fresh install with a Trusty 14.04.3 (x86_64) yesterday (custom
Bento Openbox), and today, I updated the system (with the console,
because other issues came first which led me to do a filesystem
check). Then I started Synaptic, and oops! no GUI, only the borders of
the window would show. Several other programs were affected and would
not start (Geany, text editor), or show their content. After tests and
research it appeared only GTK3 programs were affected. If using a
theme with GTK2, or move the GTK configuration out of the way, the
programs would work.

The upgrade contained the following packages:
gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0_2.30.7
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.30.7
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common_2.30.7

I fixed the issue by booting to the Live USB I had used to install,
and repackage the programs with dpkg-repack, then reinstalled them
using "sudo dpkg -i *.deb". (copied from the live usb to the home in
the install, rebooted and reinstalled there).

Problem solved for this install, where I have for now blocked the
update for these three packages.