[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1127935: Bug#1127710: thunderbird: fails to start with permission denied errors

[Olivier Berger]

FYI, I filed a bug for Evince (see #1127935) for tracking the specific issue in evince.

And your workaround worked.

Many thanks Frederic.

Best regards,

Le Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Frederic Peters a écrit :
> 
> fwiw thunderbird works for me but I got the same error running evince (48,
> from testing) with latest gdk-puxbuf, (running on GNOME from unstable),
> 
> ~~~~
> (org.gnome.Evince:8501): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:54:33.253: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
> This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
> **
> Gtk:ERROR:../../../gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/status/image-missing.svg: Could not spawn `"bwrap" "--unshare-all" "--die-with-parent" "--chdir" "/" "--ro-bind" "/usr" "/usr" "--dev" "/dev" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "--ro-bind-try" "/nix/store" "/nix/store" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-home" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-run" "--clearenv" "--setenv" "HOME" "/tmp-home" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/tmp-run" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/run/user/1000" "--symlink" "/usr/lib64" "/lib64" "--symlink" "/usr/lib" "/lib" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/fred/.cache/fontconfig" "/home/fred/.cache/fontconfig" "--ro-bind-try""/home/fred/.fonts" "/home/fred/.fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/fred/.local/share/fonts" "/home/fred/.local/share/fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/var/cache/fontconfig" "/var/cache/fontconfig" "--bind-try" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--setenv" "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--seccomp" "24" "/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--dbus-fd" "23"`: Permission denied (os error 13) (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 0)
> Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../../../gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/status/image-missing.svg: Could not spawn `"bwrap" "--unshare-all" "--die-with-parent" "--chdir" "/" "--ro-bind" "/usr" "/usr" "--dev" "/dev" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "--ro-bind-try" "/nix/store" "/nix/store" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-home" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-run" "--clearenv" "--setenv" "HOME" "/tmp-home" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/tmp-run" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/run/user/1000" "--symlink" "/usr/lib64" "/lib64" "--symlink" "/usr/lib" "/lib" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/fred/.cache/fontconfig" "/home/fred/.cache/fontconfig" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/fred/.fonts" "/home/fred/.fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/fred/.local/share/fonts" "/home/fred/.local/share/fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/var/cache/fontconfig" "/var/cache/fontconfig" "--bind-try" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--setenv" "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "/home/fred/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--seccomp" "24" "/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--dbus-fd" "23"`: Permission denied (os error 13) (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 0)
> 
> Aborted
> ~~~~
> 
> evince 49 (from unstable) works fine (but it's been ported to gtk4 so there
> are many changes that could explain it).
> 
> I'm available for anything that would help debugging this.
> 
> 
> 
>         Frederic

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