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

[Seth Arnold]

When upgrading from 12.10 to Raring I saw several of these error messages scroll past:

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...

(gtk-update-icon-cache:2606): 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.

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2607): 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.
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...

...

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...

(gtk-update-icon-cache:11368): 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.

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:11369): 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.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libgtk2.0-0 2.24.16-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.22-generic 3.8.3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 18 17:18:49 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (151 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=rxvt-unicode
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gtk+2.0
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-18 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anca Emanuel (anca-emanuel)]

workaround:
sudo chmod +w /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
sudo gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

Same on 14.04.

[Anca Emanuel (anca-emanuel)]

It just happened again after today upgrade:

[quote]The following packages will be upgraded:
  autopkgtest cups-browsed cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common kerneloops-daemon libcupsfilters1 libfontembed1
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common librhythmbox-core8 libsnmp-base libsnmp30 libtk8.6 locales memtest86+ rhythmbox rhythmbox-data rhythmbox-mozilla rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
  rhythmbox-plugin-magnatune rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist systemd-shim tk8.6 ubuntu-wallpapers ubuntu-wallpapers-saucy xdiagnose
32 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19,2 MB of archives.
[/quote]

Note the gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 package !

[quote]Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:3581): 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.
[/quote]

[papukaija (papukaija)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 619003, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.