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toothandnail

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From: Oxfordshire, UK

Registered: 2012-05-05

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[Solved]Xfce 4.18 upgrade problem

An upgrade done a few hours ago included Xfce 4.18. After the upgrade, I noticed some problems with opening some applications from within another application. I restarted the machine, which resulted in more problems - no panel when the desktop loaded. Also, Thunar would not start.

Going through the journal, I found the following:

Dec 15 19:39:04 zeta Thunar[894]: /usr/bin/Thunar: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/Thunar: undefined symbol: xfce_gtk_toggle_tool_button_new_from_action_entry
Dec 15 19:39:04 zeta systemd[542]: thunar.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Dec 15 19:39:04 zeta systemd[542]: thunar.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 15 19:39:04 zeta systemd[542]: Failed to start Thunar file manager.

I didn't see any other errors in the journal, and I've no idea where to go next. This laptop has a fairly old Arch install (installed about 3 years ago). As a test, I ran updates on another machine with has a much more recent Arch install. It shows exactly the same problem.

Has anyone else hit this problem? Any suggestions as to how to cure the problem?

Last edited by toothandnail (2022-12-16 15:45:21)

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

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Re: [Solved]Xfce 4.18 upgrade problem

Either you haven't fully upgraded (-Syu) or Thunar is loading a non-stock copy of libxfce4ui-2.

Check that you have libxfce4ui 4.18.0-1 installed and/or try to see which libxfce4ui-2 it's loading (LD_DEBUG=files thunar |& grep libxfce4ui-2).

madscience

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Re: [Solved]Xfce 4.18 upgrade problem

I'm getting errors with Thunar as well:

❯ thunar

(thunar:47207): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:46:28.799: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:5:0: Expected a valid selector

(thunar:47207): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:46:28.799: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8:0: Expected a valid selector

(thunar:47207): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:46:28.873: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
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Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/24x24/status/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/24x24/status/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  thunar

Last edited by madscience (2022-12-16 02:04:48)

seth

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Re: [Solved]Xfce 4.18 upgrade problem

That's not the same at all, the OP has incompatible libraries and for you, thunar aborts because of some gdk-pixbuf-error, possibly w/ the icon theme.
Open a new thread and post the output of

stat /usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/24x24/status/image-missing.svg
file /usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/24x24/status/image-missing.svg

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toothandnail

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From: Oxfordshire, UK

Registered: 2012-05-05

Posts: 90

Re: [Solved]Xfce 4.18 upgrade problem

Either you haven't fully upgraded (-Syu) or Thunar is loading a non-stock copy of libxfce4ui-2.

Check that you have libxfce4ui 4.18.0-1 installed and/or try to see which libxfce4ui-2 it's loading (LD_DEBUG=files thunar |& grep libxfce4ui-2).

Thanks. Non-stock version of libxfce4ui-2. I vaguely remember installing it, though I have no memory of installing it to other machines, which I must have done. Removed and replaced with the correct version and things are back to normal.