Re: Upgrade debacle........
On Fri, 2 May 2014 14:45:01 -0600 Paul E Condon sent:
> On 20140501_1337-0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> > Chris Bannister, 1.05.2014:
> > >
> > > Did you read my bug report?
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742875
> > >
> > > Was it the same package that caused the messages?
> > >
> > > Although, I didn't state it explicitly, I thought the message was
> > > a bit of a "cop out" like yourself¹. But to top it all off it
> > > asked me to run a command which didn't even exist on my system,
> > > as though I was expected to jump through hoops myself. Also,
> > > considering that I don't even know what this gdk-pixbuf-2.0
> > > program is for, (I've never messed with it.) I thought that maybe
> > > my setup uncovered a bug in the upgrade process (after all,
> > > remember we are running testing -- helping the project to test
> > > for bugs and reporting them when we do find them.) since I don't
> > > run a DE, and maybe hicolor-icon-theme expects one.
> > >
> > > I reported that bug a month ago, not even an acknowledgment from
> > > the maintainer. It looks like it hasn't even been looked at. Now,
> > > from what you have posted regarding booting problems (I'm not
> > > even sure if I've rebooted myself since then -- unfortunately I'd
> > > have too many things to restart to test it at the moment -- but
> > > if I did, I'd raise the bug level.) Hence the reason I asked if
> > > could add anything to it. Was it even caused by "Processing
> > > triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1)"? If not, then add that
> > > also.
> > >
> > > ¹ I mean that you think the same! NOT that you're a cop out! :)
> >
> > I run sid and saw the same warning when updating in early March. I
> > know when it happened, because I copied the message into a file as
> > a note to myself but then forgot to look at it! It was for the
> > same version of hicolor-icon-theme, 0.13-1, according to my note.
> > I've updated the system several times since then, but
> > hicolor-icon-theme is still 0.13-1, which is the latest version
> > available.
> >
> > I also tried
> > apt-get install --reinstall hicolor-icon-theme
> > to see if the message would appear again now, but it didn't.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > So either the original warning about the missing file was
> > incorrect, or the situation righted itself since. I see that I
> > also don't have any packages which provide
> > gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, so it's unlikely that an update ran that
> > behind the screens.
> >
> > One thing I noticed, is that the warning message you reported
> > begins with (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:28805)
> > as does mine, except for the number at the end. So I suspect that
> > the original problem was with gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 doing
> > something wrong at the time, which has been corrected since.
> > Running apt-file search gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0
> > shows me two packages, libgtk-3-0 and libgtk-3-bin, which were both
> > updated recently, according to my dpkg.log files.
> >
> > Conclusion: I think the bug was probably due to another package,
> > which has been fixed since, though it might not have entered
> > testing.
> >
> > (Oh, and just for the record: I run gnome in fallback mode, have
> > rebooted several times and don't remember any problems with icons.)
>
> In case its of any help, I experienced the error message yesterday
> while dist-upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie. It rolled by several dozen
> times as I watched the upgrade process in Aptitude. When I tried to do
> as instructed, I realized that the command didn't have a path, and
> sure enough I could not find it. I decided to ignore it since the
> worst that could happen was yet another unscheduled re-install as OP
> was expecting. But, so far, Jessie is functioning no worse than Wheezy
> for me. Except that I have no sound where I did definitely have sound
> with Wheezy. Oh well...
>
> Also I have email, which is good for getting help. I also hate
> webmail. But I can't accept help now. I have errands to run before the
> weekend. And maybe, just maybe, some kind developer/maintainer has
> already fix my sound problem and it will be gone when I get home from
> errand running.
I case it hasn't been fixed at the source and you missed it Paul. Ralf
put it right for me, but my system was more damaged than yours for some
reason?Probably my system was a little too lean and mean. So I had to
install:
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
And then run this command:
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
But you may not need to do this to get sound working. It may be a
last resort sort of fix?
Be well,
Charlie
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