GTK3 says "Couldn't recognize the image file format for file" for SVG files

[Boudhayan Gupta]

Binary package hint: gnome-themes-standard

I'm running Oneiric.

Half the images in all GTK3 apps are missing (a blue square is displayed in place of a checkbox, the buttons look weird etc.)

Here's what the Terminal says when I launch Empathy:

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css:645:65: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-menuitem-checked.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css:649:74: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-menuitem-checked-selected.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css:653:62: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-menuitem-checked.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css:657:71: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-menuitem-checked-selected.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:9:58: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-unchecked.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:15:70: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-unchecked-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:21:56: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-checked.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:28:68: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-checked-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:34:54: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/checkbox-mixed.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:40:56: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-unselected.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:46:68: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-unselected-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:52:54: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-selected.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:58:66: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-selected-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:64:51: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/radio-mixed.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:68:56: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/entry-border-normal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:72:57: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/entry-border-focused.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:77:61: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/trough-border-horizontal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:81:59: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/trough-border-vertical.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:86:68: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/trough-active-border-horizontal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:90:66: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/trough-active-border-vertical.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:94:57: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/switch-slider-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:98:64: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/switch-slider-active-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:107:55: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/progressbar-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:111:63: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-horizontal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:115:75: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-horizontal-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:119:61: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-vertical.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:123:73: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-vertical-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:127:75: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-above-horizontal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:131:87: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-above-horizontal-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:135:73: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-above-vertical.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:139:85: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-above-vertical-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:143:75: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-below-horizontal.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:147:87: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-below-horizontal-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:151:73: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-below-vertical.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:155:85: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/scale-slider-marks-below-vertical-insensitive.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:159:50: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/button-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:166:57: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/button-active-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:170:58: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/button-default-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:177:73: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/primary-toolbar-button-active-border.svg'

(empathy:10491): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets-assets.css:182:73: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/assets/primary-toolbar-raised-button-border.svg'

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Ubuntu has had a lot of changes since you filed this bug. Is this bug still present in the latest version of Ubuntu Oneiric?

[Lukas Hejtmanek (xhejtman)]

This is most probably caused by wrong /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache file. Try:
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
to regenerate it.

Check:
$ grep svg /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so"
"svg" 2 "gdk-pixbuf" "Scalable Vector Graphics" "LGPL"

and also make sure, I have librsvg2-common package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-themes-standard (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Tomasz Melcer (liori)]

Reinstallation of the relevant package (`apt-get install --reinstall libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0` or `aptitude reinstall libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0`) also helps.

I'm noting that because almost two years later I've got bitten by this problem on my Debian SID installation after a system upgrade—there seems to be something that makes this cache misgenerated during upgrades.