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tensa53

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Registered: 2024-09-28

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Solid color as image background after updating

Hello guys,

As any typical morning I was upgrading my system and then I decided to reboot. After the login I noticed that my background was changed as a solid color one. I'm trying to understand what is happening, so I will give you all the info to help me fix this issue. As I've already told you, I've upgraded my system using yay and here is the pacman log output:

[2024-09-28T11:36:38+0200] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -y —config /etc/pacman.conf —'
[2024-09-28T11:36:38+0200] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2024-09-28T11:36:41+0200] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -u -y —config /etc/pacman.conf —'
[2024-09-28T11:36:41+0200] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2024-09-28T11:36:42+0200] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] transaction started
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded alsa-card-profiles (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded libpipewire (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded gst-plugin-pipewire (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz (9.0.0-1 -> 10.0.1-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz-icu (9.0.0-1 -> 10.0.1-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded librsvg (2:2.59.0-1 -> 2:2.59.1-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded libtool (2.5.2+r1+g2fe3a3e2-1 -> 2.5.3-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire-audio (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire-alsa (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire-jack (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:44+0200] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire-pulse (1:1.2.4-1 -> 1:1.2.5-1)
[2024-09-28T11:36:45+0200] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2024-09-28T11:36:45+0200] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-daemon-reload-user.hook’…
[2024-09-28T11:36:45+0200] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-udev-reload.hook’…
[2024-09-28T11:36:46+0200] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-update.hook’…
[2024-09-28T11:36:46+0200] [ALPM] running ‘gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.hook’…
[2024-09-28T11:36:46+0200] [ALPM] running ‘glib-compile-schemas.hook’…
[2024-09-28T11:36:46+0200] [ALPM] running ‘texinfo-install.hook’…

Talking about the wallpaper, I found the location of it, here is the path:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri
‘file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/drool-l.svg’

I tried to open directly the image file and is a complete light blue solid image, completely different from the drool background image of Gnome.

Do you know any way to fix it? How can I know which of these updated packages may have corrupted the image? Or maybe the image was already corrupted and I was only seeing a cached image background? There's a way to reinstall and overwrite the default background of Gnome?
Thank you guys for reading.

gromit

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From: Germany

Registered: 2024-02-10

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Re: Solid color as image background after updating

Does this error go away when you downgrade librsvg back to 2:2.59.0-1?

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/librsvg/librsvg-2%3A2.59.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Also with which program did you view the image to test?

tensa53

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Registered: 2024-09-28

Posts: 2

Re: Solid color as image background after updating

I was viewing the image with gthumb. Actually as you said, I downgraded the package but using the downgrade package. Now the background is okay.

Last edited by tensa53 (2024-09-28 12:24:02)

gromit

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Re: Solid color as image background after updating

Please open a bugreport about this with the librsvg package! This needs some more investigation