Bug#427406: Removing /usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor/ solves the problem

[Guilhem Bonnefille]

On 8/30/07, Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig at arcor.de> wrote:
> Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 12:20 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> >> following your hints, I just completely removed
> >> /usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor/ - the window that the
> >> application doesn't responds appears now in a
> >> correct way and I'm able to just click "abort"
> >> or "kill".
> >
> >You didn't happen to save those files? If you didn't, do you know what
> >icons were in there?
>
> Not really - I checked wether or not any installed .deb had files in
> there (which was not the case) and had a look
> in /usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor/ what contained the following:
>
> 16x16/
> 48x48/
> icon-theme.cache
> 32x32/
> autopackage-installer.png
> scalable/
>
> I'm sorry I didn't saved the files in there, but since they didn't
> belong to any installed package and I don't have non-debian-packages
> installed on my system anymore, I thought they were just crap still
> existing due to experiments in former days/whatever.

I had the same problem. File are quite old (2006) for me. I imagine it
was a previous installation of the hicolor-icon-theme package.
Probably a erroneous upgrade procedure after a directory switch.

My 2 cents
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