Re: Almost all Gnome icons have disappeared - help?

[Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

        Hi,

On mer, fév 23, 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Recently I found that all of the icons on my Gnome desktop (even Trash)
> and in every Nautilus window have turned into the default "blank sheet
> of paper" icon.  If I select a file in a Nautilus window and choose
> Properties from the context menu, I can choose a custom icon myself with
> no problem.  File type is still reported correctly, and images still
> have thumbnails of themselves shown for their icons.  Restarting Gnome
> doesn't help.

 This is a powerpc specific bug, which should be fixed in unstable soon
 but is waiting for gtk's transition into testing.

 Workaround:
    rm -f /usr/share/icons/*/icon-theme-cache

 The real bug was in glib, but the "gtk-icon-cache" code had a bug which
 unveiled the problem.

   Regards,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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