F17 updates broke anaconda PNG image handling

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 18:51:52 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 20:32 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While an anaconda/systemd problem is being worked on (bug #841822),
> now my next problem when making new F17 spins including all updates:
> anaconda can't display PNG images anymore.
> 
> For all images it tries to open (and all these images do exist),
> it gives an error like:
> 
> 17:47:31,122 ERR anaconda: unable to read anaconda_header.png: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/anaconda_header.png'
> 
> Looking at the anaconda code, this error seems to be generated by
> getPixbuf() in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py,
> when it does a gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(fn).
> 
> Any suggestion on what could be causing this?
Possibly a silly question, but are these files actually pngs internally?
e.g. what does running "file" on them say?  Can eog open them?

(I ran into a bug years ago where a supposed png file was actually a
text file, due to a messed up "cp" in a specfile, iirc).

Hope this is helpful
Dave



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