Re: [gdm-list] GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:00 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Peter:
> 
> I haven't seen this sort of bug before.  If I were to guess, I'd think
> that this might be caused if the GDM theme has an invalid, missing, or
> corrupt image file.  Or possibly, they are trying to use a type of
> image that GTK doesn't support.  For example, if the theme has a SVG
> image, but librsvg isn't on the system and there isn't SVG support in
> GTK.

Thanks for the hints. The user who saw this has since updated to the
latest Ubuntu, and the problem went away. Perhaps there was a
conflicting package / bad theme as you suggested.

Best wishes,

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Peter Clifton

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