GNU bug report logs - #34124
gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 34124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:33:13 +0100

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> 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.

It's been a while since I've experienced this issue, and I don't think I
have the generation that was affected around anymore.

If I remember, I think I may have worked around this by removing a
package, although I'm not sure which.

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