Re: Upgrade debacle........
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:56 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/01/2014 02:37 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
>
> > At the time, I didn't check to see if the file
> > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> > existed. I also didn't run the command
> > gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> > However, I checked just now and that file exists, with a non-zero size.
>
> I've seen this several times myself.
>
> My experience seems to suggest that during the course of upgrading some
> packages, this 'loaders.cache' file temporarily does not exist, and
> later in the process this command gets automatically run and the file
> re-created. At some point in the middle, however, something which
> expects the file to exist gets run, and when it doesn't find the file,
> that error gets printed.
>
> IOW, as long as the file exists after the apt-get or dpkg run has
> completed (which it always has in my experience), this appears to be a
> false-positive warning.
It was an issue for the OP. It's disputable if somebody who can't solve
such an issue on her/his own, should use testing, instead of stable.
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