[gentoo-user] gthumb doesn't display images

[Arkady Grudzinsky]

Hi,

I have emerged gthumb-2.6.5 on my machine. I have not noticed any errors 
during installation. However, when I start gthumb from the terminal, I get 
the following messages:

(gthumb:24708): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion 
`pixbuf != NULL' failed

(gthumb:24708): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion 
`pixbuf != NULL' failed

(gthumb:24708): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

The application starts, but it always says "No image" in the thumbnails 
window. As I switch to a directory containing some jpegs from my camera, I 
get a bunch of additional messages:

** (gthumb:24708): CRITICAL **: gth_image_list_append_with_data: assertion 
`pixbuf != NULL' failed

I didn't count, but I assume that the number of these messages is equal to 
the number of images in the directory. And the thumbnail window still says 
"No image".

Any suggestions? It appears to me that gthumb is unhappy about some 
dependency. All dependencies seem to be there. One more detail. The file 
browser window in gthumb lacks folder icons. I have read some reports of 
similar problems with other Gnome applications using GTK and Gnome themes, 
but nothing that would suggest a solution for my problem.

On my laptop, I have compiled Linux from scratch manually and gthumb has the 
same problem there. I use XFCE as window manager. I have not explicitly 
installed Gnome. Is that a problem? Does gthumb have some dependency which 
is not explicitly stated?

Your help will be highly appreciated.
(This is a my second e-mail on this topic. The first one had no response for 
some reason and I am not sure if it has reached the list).

Arkady.