[CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

Thu Apr 3 14:02:53 UTC 2008
John <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
> A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal.
> All programs worked fine.  Desktop display was OK.
> 
> B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop
> was not correct.  All icons on the panel and menu bars became small
> empty boxes.
> Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
> 
> 'Failed to load image <file name>.png
> Details: Fatal error reading PNG image files : zlib version error'
> 
> I still can run programs by clicking the icon locations.
> Most programs run correctly.  Yesterday I found ghost viewer failed to
> open pdf file.
> 
> Curiosity: If I log in as superuser, there are not problems. All icons are
> displayed correctly.  Ghost viewer read pdf files.
> 
> -john

After thinking about it for a while it sounds like the Windows Vista
Problem with some video cards. But for some reason I just can't phathon
that because you say it does not happen on the root account.
Do lspci from root and send the line containing your video card. Maybe
you can downgrade the driver if it is supported in an older release.



> 
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the
> > problem as best as you can.
> >
> > A. Before
> >
> > B. After
> >
> > Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot
> > into root and then into you user account, just to be sure  to catch all
> > errors.
> >
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