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whelk

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Registered: 2011-08-10

Posts: 2

GdkPixbuf Image type 'xpm' is not supported

This error is giving me all sorts of grief when trying to load various GUIs.  The one that drove me to decide I just can't ignore it is not being able to load the GUI for Wireshark.  Error is as follows:

GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

I've installed everything I found under pacman -Ss gdk and pacman -Ss xpm.

After googling around I've found a few people with the same problem, but no resolutions.  Any help or pointing to promising leads would be greatly appreciated.

Edit:  I should probably provide the full error messaging.

(wireshark:5652): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

(wireshark:5652): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

(wireshark:5652): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask_for_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(wireshark:5652): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_image_set_from_pixmap: assertion `pixmap == NULL || GDK_IS_PIXMAP (pixmap)' failed

(wireshark:5652): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported
**
ERROR:stock_icons.c:232:stock_icons_init: assertion failed: (pixbuf)
Aborted

Last edited by whelk (2011-08-10 16:27:22)

cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: GdkPixbuf Image type 'xpm' is not supported

Maybe support for the xpm format is not included in the compilation of the Arch package (although I highly doubt that)? You could try having a look around the configure options, but this seems like an upstream bug to me.

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Archchild

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Registered: 2012-05-08

Posts: 1

Re: GdkPixbuf Image type 'xpm' is not supported

I've encountered this issue just now. When I launched gnuplot and plot something, the similar errors came up, googling for hours cannot help, finally I fixed this by reinstall gdk-pixbuf2, that's interesting! Hope to help you!

Regards,
--Tony

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: GdkPixbuf Image type 'xpm' is not supported

Welcome to the forums, Archchild. Unfortunately, this is a rather old thread which we usually leave alone.
Please open a new thread for your problem and link back here if you feel it necessary.

And please read our Forum Etiquette.

Closing this thread.

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