All Desktop icon disappear if 'Desktop' Folder contains a corrupted encoding file

[Bugreporter69]

Hi,

For this to happen, you should have "Desktop icons" activated.

After downloading from my browser directly to my '$HOME/Desktop/' folder a file corrupted with an unknown encoding (or partially downloaded therefore corrupted with a bad encoding, anyway), ALL the icons on my ubuntu-desktop/Gnome3 Desktop environment disappeared.

To fix it, and after looking around what the heck was happening, rebooted, deactivated Extensions, etc. Without any working Fix, I deleted this bad encoding/corrupted file and ALL the icons on my ubuntu-desktop/Gnome3 Desktop environment display normally again.

Thank you,
Regards,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.539
Uname: Linux 6.9.2-tkg-eevdf x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 31 01:13:25 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-03 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)