Subject: bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:10:09 +0200

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> writes:

> On one system running GuixSD, Gnome Shell crashes when opening the
> activities overview (super key, or clicking on the activities button in
> the top left).
>
>
> (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639: g_file_new_for_path: assertion 'path != NULL' failed
>
> (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed
>
> (.gnome-shell-real:2471): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:36:30.639: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
> This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
> **
> Gtk:ERROR:gtkicontheme.c:4261:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))

Could you try to see if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment where
GNOME Shell is launched to the lib directory of the “gdk-pixbuf+svg” (or
“gdk-pixbuf”) package makes any difference?

You may need to do this in ~/.xsession and launch the gnome-session
manually.

--
Ricardo