i cannot reproduce this bug, all works fine here, which version of hicolor-icon-theme and libgtk2.0-bin do you have.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor Cache file created successfully. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/share/icons/hicolor total 2876 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 128x128 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 16x16 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 192x192 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 22x22 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 24x24 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 32x32 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 36x36 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 48x48 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 64x64 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 72x72 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 96x96 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2865372 2007-08-21 10:06 icon-theme.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22251 2006-12-06 20:54 index.theme drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-08-08 19:58 scalable [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ related packages: ========== hicolor-icon-theme 0.10-1ubuntu1 libgtk2.0-bin 2.11.6-1ubuntu3 gnome-icon-theme 2.19.90-0ubuntu1 human-icon-theme 0.19-0ubuntu1 tangerine-icon-theme 0.22-0ubuntu1 tango-icon-theme 0.8.0~cvs070515-0ubuntu1 tango-icon-theme-common 0.7-0ubuntu1 tango-icon-theme-extras 0.1.0-0ubuntu4 -- [gutsy] impossible to generate hicolor icons index cache https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs