** Description changed: Hello, - I did a fresh install with a Trusty 14.04.3 (x86_64) yesterday, and - today, I updated the system (with the console, because other issues came - first which led me to do a filesystem check). Then I started Synaptic, - and oops! no GUI, only the borders of the window would show. Several - other programs were affected and would not start (Geany, text editor), - or show their content. After tests and research it appeared only GTK3 - programs were affected. If using a theme with GTK2, or move the GTK - configuration out of the way, the programs would work. + I did a fresh install with a Trusty 14.04.3 (x86_64) yesterday (custom + Bento Openbox), and today, I updated the system (with the console, + because other issues came first which led me to do a filesystem check). + Then I started Synaptic, and oops! no GUI, only the borders of the + window would show. Several other programs were affected and would not + start (Geany, text editor), or show their content. After tests and + research it appeared only GTK3 programs were affected. If using a theme + with GTK2, or move the GTK configuration out of the way, the programs + would work. The upgrade contained the following packages: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0_2.30.7 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.30.7 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common_2.30.7 I fixed the issue by booting to the Live USB I had used to install, and repackage the programs with dpkg-repack, then reinstalled them using "sudo dpkg -i *.deb". (copied from the live usb to the home in the install, rebooted and reinstalled there). Problem solved for this install, where I have for now blocked the update for these three packages. At post-install, after I had updated, I had the same message as the people who reported that bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/1282294 **** (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:29671): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory This likely means that your installation is broken. Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time being. **** and when trying to do so, the console returned a message stating gdk- pixbuf-query-loaders was not installed. (no such package in the repos either). More information can be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/09/06/%23ubuntu-bugs.html where I discussed about this bug and my findings. Now I will try to produce this bug again in the Live USB (which has no persistence). Best regards, Mélodie
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