Xsane crashes: Image type “legacy-xpm” is not supported

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I had no problems running xsane last month, now it suddenly crashes.

> xsane                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    15:05:01

(xsane:13284): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: 15:05:03.362: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type “legacy-xpm” is not supported

(xsane:13284): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: 15:05:03.362: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type “legacy-xpm” is not supported
fish: Job 1, 'xsane' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

I also had the error:

Gtk-WARNING **: 14:48:08.252: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

which I was able to solve by installing gnome-themes-extra.

I’m running fedora43 with plasma6 desktop.

Would by thankful for any suggestions!

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downgrade gdk-pixbuf2 to gdk-pixbuf2-2.44.4

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sudo dnf downgrade gdk-pixbuf2 worked for me. Thanks!

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pls open a bug report. gdk-pixbuf2 must not be updated to a version newer than 2.44.4
see also 2452248 – Revert gdk-pixbuf2 to stay at 2.44.4 version in f44
F44 also reverted to version 2.44.4.

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Got hit with this this morning, Figured out the downgrade. Added an exclude for it to dnf.conf. Also reported the bug at 2460118 – [abrt] xsane: gtk_image_set_from_pixmap(): xsane killed by SIGSEGV

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Similar results today with gkrellm

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You can also use simple-scan (included in fedora repo’s). Not as fancy as xsane, but it works. It seems xsane hasn’t been updated in a while.