[arch-general] Missing Icons after Upgrade

[CtM]

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
>
>