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

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 23:08 +0200, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig at arcor.de> wrote:
> > Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> > >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.

I was mostly interested in easily reproducing the bug. I will give it a
shot later (trying to create an invalid cache file
in /usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor) and see what happens. Either way I will
probably forward this bug to the upstream developers.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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