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Updating from 14.04 to 14.10 fixing code not working

Asked by Wise Melon

When I was upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10, I kept on getting errors which I later looked up in the logs and this is what is said:
"
(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:6681): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

This likely means that your installation is broken.
Try running the command
  gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
to make things work again for the time being.
"

But then when I tried running "gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache" (without the "") in terminal (I even tried with sudo) it just gives me this error:
"
bash: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache: Permission denied
"

So what do I do if it is rejecting the code that it meant "to make things work again for the time being"? Is there anything that I am doing wrong? Or...?

Any feedback would be great! Thanks in advance!

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Your PC is experiencing the following bug, for which there is no solution yet:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1368723

You could perform a clean install of 14.04 LTS or 14.10 instead of upgrading.

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Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Do you know if the bug is at least being looked into?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

No idea. I do not work for Canonical. I'm just a volunteer from the community....

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Sudo doesn't traverse redirection so you need to run:

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders | sudo tee /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

You do realise that Ubuntu 14.10 (Codename Utopic) is only supported til July next year wheras 14.04 (Codename Trusty) is LTS and supported til April 2019.

Why the upgrade at all? Is your system not running ok under Trusty?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

There are already several bug reports about that problem:

bug #1371859
bug #1282294
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625203

and even some more.

Running the terminal command

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders | sudo tee /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

should help.

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