gtk-update-icon-cache: The generated cache was invalid.

I'm seeing it in Lucid as well. I was trying to change the icon of fusion-icon. It worked before, though.

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it's still here in Maverick!
i see it everytime i do an install or update in the terminal output.

and a "sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor" always gives me:

gtk-update-icon-cache: The generated cache was invalid.

1. when updating or installing software at some point it always wants to update the icon cache and then gives the error but that seems to be ignored and the installation normally continues so i haven't let it bother me. until now

2.i expect that updating the icon cache works without any error messages.

3. i always get this error: gtk-update-icon-cache: The generated cache was invalid.
 even if i delete the ".icon-theme.cache" the update icon cache command creates a new file but gives the error mentioned above.

how could i reopen this bug? or is it done by my comment?

Hi,
I also found the above mentioned bug in Archlinux, and found your bug report here. Apparently his bug does not come from the gtk-update-icon-cache command but from something in the icon theme.

Examples:
$ gtk-update-icon-cache -f /home/joyce/.icons/hicolor
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.

$ gtk-update-icon-cache /home/joyce/.icons/gnome-carbonate/
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.

$ gtk-update-icon-cache /home/joyce/.icons/LinuxLex-8
gtk-update-icon-cache: The generated cache was invalid.

In the first 2 examples a file has been generated in the root directory of the theme as "icon-theme.cache", but in the case of the third example, where the output says the cache is invalid, the cache file generated in the root directory of the theme had for name ".icon-theme.cache".

The report number 4 shows the message error for hicolor in January 2011 : would have the result been the same if it had been done in the home of the user ? Would it still error out with the latest hicolor version actually available ?

I hope this helps.