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--- Begin Message ---
Package: Nautilus
Version: 3.26.2-1
When I open a folder containing some jpg or png images in Nautilus, none of
image thumbnails are generated.
I can see thumbnails for those images all fail under
.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/
hexdump -C
~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/49be632c0fdb9c6cf68be6e3b324e0da.png
00000000 89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a 00 00 00 0d 49 48 44 52
|.PNG........IHDR|
00000010 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 08 06 00 00 00 1f 15 c4
|................|
00000020 89 00 00 00 04 73 42 49 54 08 08 08 08 7c 08 64
|.....sBIT....|.d|
00000030 88 00 00 00 53 74 45 58 74 54 68 75 6d 62 3a 3a
|....StEXtThumb::|
00000040 55 52 49 00 66 69 6c 65 3a 2f 2f 2f 68 6f 6d 65
|URI.file:///home|
00000050 2f 64 61 6e 7a 2f 50 69 63 74 75 72 65 73 2f 53
|/danz/Pictures/S|
00000060 63 72 65 65 6e 73 68 6f 74 25 32 30 66 72 6f 6d
|creenshot%20from|
00000070 25 32 30 32 30 31 37 2d 31 32 2d 32 33 25 32 30
|%202017-12-23%20|
00000080 32 32 2d 32 38 2d 33 34 2e 70 6e 67 32 12 bf 2e
|22-28-34.png2...|
00000090 00 00 00 17 74 45 58 74 54 68 75 6d 62 3a 3a 4d
|....tEXtThumb::M|
000000a0 54 69 6d 65 00 31 35 31 34 30 32 31 33 31 35 aa
|Time.1514021315.|
000000b0 2c 28 b9 00 00 00 20 74 45 58 74 53 6f 66 74 77 |,(....
tEXtSoftw|
000000c0 61 72 65 00 47 4e 4f 4d 45 3a 3a 54 68 75 6d 62
|are.GNOME::Thumb|
000000d0 6e 61 69 6c 46 61 63 74 6f 72 79 6f 44 55 e0 00
|nailFactoryoDU..|
000000e0 00 00 0b 49 44 41 54 08 99 63 60 00 02 00 00 05
|...IDAT..c`.....|
000000f0 00 01 62 55 32 88 00 00 00 00 49 45 4e 44 ae 42
|..bU2.....IEND.B|
00000100 60 82 |`.|
00000102
I am not 100% sure it is an issue with Nautilus, but it occurs in Nautilus
under Gnome 3, Gnome 3 flashback and Xfce.
On the other hand, Xfce's file manager thunar can generate thumbnails
without any problems. If I open a folder with thunar to generate thumbnails
first and then open the same folder
with Nautilus, all thumbnails would be displayed fine. Also I can confirm I
can generate thumbnails for images using gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.
This feature worked for me before. It possibly got broken 2 or 3 months ago
since gnome-3.26 roll-out.
When thumbnailing fails, I don't see any errors in either
~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/messages.
It could be an issue with gnome-thumbnail-factory settings but I don't know
how it works and I am not sure where I need to look.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid,
Linux 4.14.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.14.2-1 (2017-11-30) i686 GNU/Linux
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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