Re: gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-14

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Michael Flohr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> many thanks for the fast answer!
>
>>> have upgraded to the newest packages of gtk2 etc.
>>> Now, I get the following error in the webcollage-helper from  
>>> xscreensaver
>>> (various releases, e.g. 4.23, 5.07):

Ah; not a Fink xscreensaver

>>> "Cannot recognize image file format" for jpg or ppn files.
>>
>> It would be useful to have a verbatim transcript of the error with  
>> a few more lines.
>
> Sorry, this is the one and only line the program prints out.
> However, I found out a bit more.
> The program is supposed to paste a jpeg into another image
> file. This file is first created as a ppm image. Later, it appears
> to me that this image actually has become a jpeg image.
> The file name is not changed, however, and has no suffix.
> If I give it the suffix .ppm, the program pastes one jpeg
> succesfully into it, but after that complains about a wrong
> ppm file for the next pasting operation.
> Something is strange here.
>
>>> I could track that down to presumably coming from gdk- 
>>> pixbuf-0.22.0-14.
>>> It worked with the pervious version. Did I do something wrong?
>>> (I run "selfupdate" and then "update all" in FinkCommander.)
>>
>> See if running
>>
>> /sw/sbin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders
>>
>> fixes that.   I had to do that recently in a similar context.
>
> No, that did not change anything.
>
>>> I have not yet found another app reporting this error, but will  
>>> try to do so.
>
> I can run gkrellm with the gkrellkam2 plugin without any
> problems. This uses gdk-pixbuf and many other libraries from
> the gtk2 and gnome world. So, presumably, everything is ok
> here. I just wondered why webcollage-helper did stop working
> after the upgrade.
>
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>

There were problems with building fink's xscreensaver after the gtk+2  
update.  Just a guess, but you may need to rebuild yours, then.

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