[Fedora 43] no thumbnails in Nautilus (gnome files)

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Hello, I just upgraded to Fedora 43 and suddenly I have no image thumbnails on Nautilus. I deleted the thumbs cache but they still do not appear anymore. Can anyone help? Thanks!

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This is a known bug that has been fixed.
You will receive an update shortly. Just keep updating your system.

See

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Thank you!

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I’m curious about something tho. Koji build was submitted to stable 3 weeks ago, how come OP didn’t have it on their F43 system?

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updates made after the Beta was frozen for prerelease were not in the initial release image.
The release image was build 1.6 from that frozen stage.

Most updates done during that period where the beta was frozen were placed into either updates-testing or updates, but updates is not enabled until the final release occurs.

When the release Beta is frozen the updates-testing repo is also disabled so most users cannot perform any updates beyond the freeze date.

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See also Milestone freezes - Fedora Project Wiki

You can override the freeze by (temporarily) enabling the updates-testing repository during freeze period if you want every update right away.

sudo dnf update --refresh --enablerepo=updates-testing
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The bodhi update has been part of the stable repo for 3 weeks. If @hellotalk87 doesn’t see thumbnails now, it means that something else must be broken. Or they updated using some very old mirror.

@hellotalk87 Please make sure your system is fully updated. Then please provide the output of

rpm -q gdk-pixbuf2 glycin gtk4 totem-video-thumbnailer
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Hello Kamil, I confirm I still have no working thumbnails.

This is the output from the command

gdk-pixbuf2-2.44.4-1.fc43.x86_64
package glycin is not installed
gtk4-4.20.2-1.fc43.x86_64
package totem-video-thumbnailer is not installed

And yes, my system is fully updated.

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Could you also share the output of

cat /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
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Sure, here it is

cat: /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer: No such file or directory
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It seems to be the same issue as this one:

Does it work if you reinstall the package with:

sudo dnf reinstall gdk-pixbuf2
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I reinstalled the package, logged out and logged in. still no thumbnails. I also deleted the cache again, but it doesn’t work. Funnily it’s affecting only images and not videos: mp4 files do have thumbnails.

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more importantly this is happening on 2 different machines which I upgraded to Fedora 43 (and not happening in a third machine running silverblue) so I doubt it’s something specific to my installation.

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Can you try sudo dnf install glycin totem-video-thumbnailer

The command Kamil asked you to execute showed that those two aren’t installed, and they are responsible for generating thumbnails. Gdk-pixbuf2 was replaced with glycin in GNOME 49.

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I just installed totem-video-thumbnailer but glycin is not found

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: glycin
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
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Can you give glycin-thumbnailer a go?

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This worked! I now have thumbnails! Thank you so much :heart:

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hello @tragivictoria , had the same problem, followed instructions, get

Package “glycin-thumbnailer-2.0.3-1.fc43.x86_64” is already installed.

removed glycin-thumbnailer and reinstalled. also changed gnome files thumbnail item to “all files”.

still no thumbnails for .dng

also installed RPM version of darktable, to see if that would install missing libraries. no change.

any other ideas?

thanks for any insight

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Reinstalling on linux doesn’t do anything, since config files aren’t being removed.

Glycin won’t help, since it doesn’t support .dng (at least it doesnt state support in its README file). I recommend you to open new issue asking about thumbnailer for .dng files.

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thank you, Victoria.

i would like to mention that it’s also not previewing either CR2 nor RW2. only thumbnails i get are for pdf, video and jpg.

update: finally got it to work:

  1. installed tumbler and tumbler-extras per advice found elsewhere

  2. followed instructions at GitHub - emuskardin/nautilus-raw-thumbnails: Preview RAW files in Nautilus

  3. rebooted

now i have thumbnails of everything.

posted this solution in the new issue i’d opened.

thank you again Victoria and others for sharing and commenting on this issue.

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