GNOME 3 Missing Icons

I recently discovered that in GNOME 3, some icons have randomly disappeared. I can confirm that this wasn’t caused by any sort of software update or any sort of major system change. The icons in question are the volume, network, and a menu icon from the sidebar in GNOME Shell responsible for going to software categories. I’ve tried the following fix attempts with no results.

  1. Reinstalled gnome-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme
  2. Ran gtk-update-icon-cache

These missing icons don’t effect functionality as you can still click where the icons used to be and get the volume and network menus, but it is a major annoyance visually as things randomly disappearing tends to mean something is wrong.

Any ideas or suggestions?

wjmcknight wrote:
> work, and a menu icon from the sidebar in
> GNOME Shell responsible for going to software categories. I’ve tried the
> following fix attempts with no results.
Try creating a new user and check whether icons appear in the new user


GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

I’ve got the same problem since last patches (for me it was yeserday). I’ve created a new user and with the new profile the icons are missing too.

I’me sending one pictures to clarify what’s happening: volume, networkmgr, bluetooth icons in the top bar aren’t there. In Nautilus you can see the grey empty buttons at the top, and in the middle of the screen the volume, or brightness indicators aren’t there.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6914595/iconsmissing.png

Regards.

wjmcknight wrote:
>
> I recently discovered that in GNOME 3, some icons have randomly
> disappeared. I can confirm that this wasn’t caused by any sort of
> software update or any sort of major system change. The icons in
> question are the volume, network, and a menu icon from the sidebar in
> GNOME Shell responsible for going to software categories. I’ve tried the
> following fix attempts with no results.
>
> 1. Reinstalled gnome-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme
> 2. Ran gtk-update-icon-cache
>
> These missing icons don’t effect functionality as you can still click
> where the icons used to be and get the volume and network menus, but it
> is a major annoyance visually as things randomly disappearing tends to
> mean something is wrong.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
Check whether following icon packages are installed:-


$zypper se -i icon-theme
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                                 | Summary                     |
Type
--+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------
i | dmz-icon-theme-cursors               | DMZ Cursor Theme            |
package
i | gnome-icon-theme                     | GNOME Icon Theme            |
package
i | gnome-icon-theme-extras              | GNOME Icon Theme Extras     |
package
i | gnome-icon-theme-symbolic            | Symbolic icon theme for G-> |
package
i | hicolor-icon-theme                   | Fallback Icon Theme         |
package
i | hicolor-icon-theme-branding-openSUSE | Fallback Icon Theme -- op-> |
package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy        | Galaxy LibreOffice Icon T-> |
package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast    | Hicontrast LibreOffice Ic-> |
package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-tango         | Tango LibreOffice Icon Th-> |
package
i | tango-icon-theme                     | Tango Icon Theme            |
package
$


GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

Yes, all packages you listed are installed.

I didn’t mention I am in 12.3.

Regards.

Jesus.

This happened to me too after latest patches on 12.3. No icons on the panel. No “show applications” icon. Basically icons that are intrinsic to the GNOME shell has gone missing.

These packages were installed by me today, using ‘zypper patch’:

2013-12-01 12:45:37|install|librsvg-2-2|2.36.4-2.4.1|i586||repo-update|c5505df85d0b9c040166a42487b28fd9e3903b601ae8778b52783949437321aa|
2013-12-01 12:45:38|install|libwbclient0|3.6.12-59.13.1|i586||repo-update|3812027fec53fc625a85bb4ca6547b9401f44706696863b54863393a4bf24aa5|
2013-12-01 12:45:38|install|gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg|2.36.4-2.4.1|i586||repo-update|f151eab94d22818efe8c2b474f12c3037b78ae0c46ecc64fc4f687c95459f3f2|
2013-12-01 12:45:47|install|samba-client|3.6.12-59.13.1|i586||repo-update|2c19d7cc275ddfcc2ac388c8e0f6d02f5b1949dbdf33d830ad5414b0c7509eef|
2013-12-01 12:45:48|install|libsmbclient0|3.6.12-59.13.1|i586||repo-update|1987db4c23577f8f357053c5aea8fd5d6994f7bd698daa40ba0d19297c8148d3|
2013-12-01 12:45:52|install|samba|3.6.12-59.13.1|i586||repo-update|5e03f86179c11dadcca97bc448cb9dabc4a7222b98d504255721cd09834288f6|

Output of ‘zypper se -i icon-theme’

S | Name                                 | Summary                                         | Type   
--+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+--------
i | dmz-icon-theme-cursors               | DMZ Cursor Theme                                | package
i | gnome-icon-theme                     | GNOME Icon Theme                                | package
i | gnome-icon-theme-extras              | GNOME Icon Theme Extras                         | package
i | gnome-icon-theme-symbolic            | Symbolic icon theme for GNOME                   | package
i | hicolor-icon-theme                   | Fallback Icon Theme                             | package
i | hicolor-icon-theme-branding-openSUSE | Fallback Icon Theme -- openSUSE Icons           | package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy        | Galaxy LibreOffice Icon Theme (OOo-3.x default) | package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast    | Hicontrast LibreOffice Icon Theme               | package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-tango         | Tango LibreOffice Icon Theme (GNOME default)    | package
i | tango-icon-theme                     | Tango Icon Theme                                | package

jsanchem wrote:
> Yes, all packages you listed are installed.
>
> I didn’t mention I am in 12.3.
Can you identify the date on which this happened ?
If you can identify the gnome package that cause this then you can
“downgrade”.

You can check history in YaST installer using Extras ==> Show history
==> Choose date


GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

Also happened to me yesterday after updating packages.

Suspect gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg 2.36.4 and/or librsvg-2-2 2.36.4.

Same thing here on 12.3 (64bit)… seems to have been caused by the Nov 30th patches.

Downgrading librsvg-2-2 fixed it for me.

Was: 2.36.4-2.4.1 (x86_64)
Downgraded to: 2.36.4-2.1.1 (x86_64)

After reloading the gnome shell, all icons returned.

GL

I just downgraded both, logged out of KDE, restarted, logged into Gnome and the icons were back.

It’s the same for me. After downgrading librsvg the icons show up.
Thanks.

semhustej wrote:
>
> GLuskin;2604196 Wrote:
>> Same thing here on 12.3 (64bit)… seems to have been caused by the Nov
>> 30th patches.
>>
>> Downgrading librsvg-2-2 fixed it for me.
>>
>> Was: 2.36.4-2.4.1 (x86_64)
>> Downgraded to: 2.36.4-2.1.1 (x86_64)
>>
>> After reloading the gnome shell, all icons returned.
>>
>> GL
>
> It’s the same for me. After downgrading librsvg the icons show up.
> Thanks.
>
>
People affected by this should probably add a me too here :-

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840753

you can use the same login credentials as these forums


GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

I can also confirm that downgrading librsvg fixed this problem.

Thanks guys.

Yep. Downgrading librsvg-2-2 fixes the problem here too.

Thanks everyone.

Jesus.

Confirmed here also.

Thanks

Yes, thanks. when I downgrade, the missing icons come back.

I can confirm the same issue at openSUSE 12.2 (gnome 3.4). The icons went missing on the login screen too, so the issue is not account-specific. Downgrading librsvg-2-2 from 2.36.1-2.4.1 to 2.36.1-2.1.2 fixed the issue.

I’ve just upgraded from 12.2 and find various icons either not shown or appear as broken (sheet of paper with red X in it).
I’m not that au fait with Yast/Zypper but I am willing to try downgrading as suggested above if someone can tell me
what to do.

bill purvis wrote:
>
> I’ve just upgraded from 12.2 and find various icons either not shown or
> appear as broken (sheet of paper with red X in it).
> I’m not that au fait with Yast/Zypper but I am willing to try
> downgrading as suggested above if someone can tell me
> what to do.
>
>
Post the output of the following command within code tags

zypper lr --details


GNOME 3.10.2
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

-$ zypper lr --details
# | Alias                     |  Name                               | Enabled | Refresh | Priority |  Type   |  URI                                                                       | Service
--+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1  | openSUSE-13.1-1.10        | openSUSE-13.1-1.10                 |  No      | Yes     |   99     | yast2  |  hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Verbatim_0302_11120970002422-0:0-part2  |        
2 | repo-debug                |  openSUSE-13.1-Debug                | No      | Yes     |   99     |  NONE   |  http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/            |        
3 | repo-debug-update         |  openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug         | No      | Yes     |   99     |  NONE   |  http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1/                           |        
4 | repo-debug-update-non-oss |  openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | Yes     |   99     |  NONE   |  http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1-non-oss/                   |        
5 | repo-non-oss              |  openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     |  yast2  |  http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/              |        
6 | repo-oss                  |  openSUSE-13.1-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     |  yast2  |  http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/                  |        
7 | repo-source               |  openSUSE-13.1-Source               | No      | Yes     |   99     |  NONE   |  http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/           |        
8 | repo-update               |  openSUSE-13.1-Update               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     |  rpm-md |  http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/                                 |        
9 | repo-update-non-oss       |  openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     |  rpm-md |  http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1-non-oss/                         |