I can't say this will work for you, but this worked for me: pacman -Sy shared-mime-info I'm not sure how it got removed but installing it fixed my issue. Maybe it will work for you. Slash wrote:

Comrades,

With the recent gconf/gtk/etc update, all of my GTK2 apps do not have icons- With some exceptions. In pidgin, it shows the "Quit", "Add", and "Preference" icons. In Homebank, it shows the "Save" and "Open" icons. Other programs, like Sonata, do not run:

$ sonata Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sonata", line 48, in <module> app = main.Base() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sonata/main.py", line 1057, in __init__ self.albumpb = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size(self.find_path('sonata-album.png'), self.LIB_COVER_SIZE, self.LIB_COVER_SIZE) glib.GError: Unrecognized image file format

gqview cannot view any images, although some of it's own icons are visible. Non-GTK2 apps, like feh can view all images fine. It seems like the only icons displayed are "stock" GTK2 icons. Anything else is unreadable to gtk2 / glib2 / gdk-pixbuf / something.

At least one other person has this problem and they posted a screenshot on the forums. I also wrote a bit more information about my troubleshooting, as well:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=438688

Thanks,

Slashbunny