Comment 4 for bug 719662

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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) wrote :

Seems like bug 719861 might be the root cause of our recent icon issues with software-center. If anyone who is currently experiencing this bug could please answer these two questions it should verify that this is indeed the root cause:

  1. Are you running a fresh install of Natty? (seems so, looking at apport info from dupes here and from bug 716111, seems like daily builds since 20110209 have the problem).
  2. If you running the following command in a terminal, then restart, does the problem disappear?:

       sudo apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 --reinstall

Please let us know your result if you are able to try this. And thanks!

Meanwhile, the next dev version of software-center should be out soon and will prevent this crash. The good news is that software-center will be much more robust from this point on for the case where icons cannot be found. Certainly, it should never crash in this case.

Thanks again all!