[Solved]: missing system icons, have to enter password twice

hooya · 2013-10-26 20:53:47

I recently did a very substantial system upgrade. I removed all of my AUR and local packages in order to try to solve some package conflicts I was getting. I solved those package conflicts. However now Gnome is giving me some weird problems.

First of all, when I first log in, the first time I enter my password and click Log In, nothing happens. I click Cancel, reenter my password, and Log In again and it works fine. Not critical, but annoying and shouldn't be a problem. Wasn't a problem before.

Secondly, Gnome now has many system icons missing: Nautilus commands, user menu, and the Shotwell application icon, of all things. No Extensions currently enabled.

Screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/mlFgjyy.jpg

No idea why this would happen. I have literally re-installed my entire system with

pacman -Qenq | pacman -S -

(after a -Syyu command earlier)
Since that command can't be done via sudo, I had to su into a root user first. Maybe that's part of the problem?

I have honestly no idea where to start debugging this. I've googled for "missing gnome icons" errors and none of the results I've turned up seem at all related to my specific scenario. I should mention that I've wiped all the config files and folders related to gnome that I can think of in case there was a bad config file somewhere - trying to get back to a "default" scenario but the problem remains.

Last edited by hooya (2013-10-28 03:24:23)

hooya · 2013-10-28 03:24:03

So I just finally solved this. Even though I reinstalled all my packages with the above command, reinstalling Nautilus by itself fixed the missing icons problem.

WonderWoofy · 2013-10-28 03:29:52

Just so you know, that command wouldn't install all the packages on your system. It would only reinstall the explicitly installed packages. Dependencies are rather important, and if you feel that something may not be installed correctly, it would be important to ensure that the deps are okay as well. So you should have used just -Qqn there.

I don't actually use any kind of DE that relies on icons, so I can't explain to you why reisntalling nautilus seemed to fix things. But if you think that a package might not be installed properly (or if you want to check all packages) you can use pacman -Qk[k] [package] [package] ...

hooya · 2013-10-28 03:37:00

It's strange you say that, as this seems to imply that it does exactly what you say it doesn't:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_packages

So this command:

pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -

Will actually re-install all packages? Both -Qqn and -Qenq list Nautlius in their outputs.

Incidentally, I did a pacman -S gnome and selected all at one point in this as well, which didn't solve the problem either.

Maybe what was missing wasn't really icons, they were part of Nautilus, which was broken at some point? Not sure what I did that would have broken Nautilus...

Last edited by hooya (2013-10-28 03:38:43)

WonderWoofy · 2013-10-28 03:45:37

Yeah, so either way nautilus will be reinstalled, as it is an explicit package. But I just wanted to make you aware that the '-e' is specifying packages that were explicitly installed. Check the output of pacman -Qi <package> and you will see a line that tells you whether the queried package was installed explicitly or as a dependency. I just wanted to let you know that the command you ran wasn't doing quite what you thought it was doing.

There is a downside to using just '-Qqn' though as that would make every package get marked as being installed explicitly.

Again, I can't comment on why this fixed things for you. I don't use nautilus, a DE, or icons at all. Sorry.

hooya · 2013-10-28 03:51:30

It's just strange that re-installing it with everything else didn't fix it, but doing it on its own did.

Apparently Nautilus was broken and now it's fixed.... at this point I'm unconcerned with the why. Someone else can think philosophically on that one I guess.

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#1 2013-10-26 20:53:47

[Solved]: missing system icons, have to enter password twice

#2 2013-10-28 03:24:03

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