On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:48:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:56 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 05/01/2014 02:37 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >>>> >>>> At the time, I didn't check to see if the file >>>> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache >>>> existed. I also didn't run the command >>>> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > >>>> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache >>>> However, I checked just now and that file exists, with a non-zero size. >>> >>> I've seen this several times myself. >>> >>> My experience seems to suggest that during the course of upgrading some >>> packages, this 'loaders.cache' file temporarily does not exist, and >>> later in the process this command gets automatically run and the file >>> re-created. At some point in the middle, however, something which >>> expects the file to exist gets run, and when it doesn't find the file, >>> that error gets printed. >>> >>> IOW, as long as the file exists after the apt-get or dpkg run has >>> completed (which it always has in my experience), this appears to be a >>> false-positive warning. >> >> It was an issue for the OP. It's disputable if somebody who can't solve >> such an issue on her/his own, should use testing, instead of stable. > > The issue is not whether one can solve it, but whether one should have > to. I don't even use GNOME, so shouldn't even see the > message. It gave the impression that your system would be horribly > broken if you didn't run the command, and yet the command doesn't even > exist on your system!
It's the wrong impression. I've seen this message often and I no longer bother running the query loader line - and unity and gnome-shell still function properly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sycx2UZ5QJJs_vUfmp8ubB=ZtVMktfLUM8P=bu2r2h...@mail.gmail.com