> I built emacs from the git repository
> (1e363a8ea5ac09455f3a44fbb646b5af32bca51c). WIth IDLWAVE upsteam, and the
> changes to the idlw-toolbar.el file to make the icons 24 x 24 pixels and the
> colors 8 bit triplets (#000000), emacs doesn't abort, but the icons are just A
> (as reported by Glenn). The bit_per_sample assertion in
> gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data still fails.
So what in those icons cause the problem?
If you entirely replace those images with contents of files in
etc/images/, does the problem still persist? If so, does it mean we
have problems with the GTK toolbar in other modes, like Gnus and GUD?