Today's F20 update of hicolor-icon-theme messed the desktop

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/05/14 17:02, Marco Maccaferri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did the usual yum update today and after a reboot I found my desktop all messed and not functioning: the icons on the preferred applications bar were all stick to each other without the usual border around them, the search functionality wasn't working, the buttons on the applications screen weren't visible, and other weird things.
>
> I did a yum history undo, it failed to downgrade some packages (wondering why since I updated few minutes before) but luckily it restored the right package and the desktop is working again.
>
> I think that the culprit is hicolor-icon-theme, before opening a bug, do someone else experienced the same issue ?
>
> For reference, the updated packages are these:
>
> crda-1.1.3_2013.11.27-4.fc20.x86_64
> hicolor-icon-theme-0.13-1.fc20.noarch
> hwdata-0.261-1.fc20.noarch
> iproute-3.12.0-2.fc20.x86_64
> lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.94.0-1.fc20.noarch
> oddjob-0.31.5-1.fc20.x86_64
> oddjob-mkhomedir-0.31.5-1.fc20.x86_64
> python-dns-1.11.1-2.fc20.noarch
> realmd-0.14.6-4.fc20.x86_64
> setroubleshoot-3.2.17-1.fc20.x86_64
> setroubleshoot-server-3.2.17-1.fc20.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.23.0-4.fc20.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.14.4-7.fc20.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-common-1.14.4-7.fc20.x86_64
>
> After the downgrade, I did an upgrade again excluding hicolor-icon-theme (seems to the only relevant package here) and the desktop is still working. My guess is that something in there messed everything.
>
>

No problems here on either KDE or GNOME desktops.


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