Removing profile picture freaks out GNOME

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When I installed the system, the profile picture was a default letter S (taken from the username). I changed it, didn’t like the result and removed it. Now the default picture is this garbled mess that looks as if my video drivers are failing.

I already tried:

  • Deleting ~/.config and ~/.local/share.
  • hardware.graphics.enable = true;
  • Rebooting.

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System info 
## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**      XIAOMI Redmi Book Pro 16 2024
- **Memory:**              32.0 GiB
- **Processor:**           Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H × 22
- **Graphics:**            Intel® Arc™ Graphics (MTL)
- **Disk Capacity:**       1.0 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**    RMAMT6B0P0A0A
- **OS Name:**             NixOS 25.05 (Warbler)
- **OS Build:**            25.05.803471.4792576cb003
- **OS Type:**             64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**       48
- **Windowing System:**    Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**      Linux 6.15.1
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Lmao.

This is from /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/synalice. The file is corrupted btw, I can’t attach it here without exporting it through Gimp first. Discourse doesn’t recognize it as PNG othervise. Here is the broken PNG file as an archive: https://files.catbox.moe/lpo61l.zip

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I duct taped it by running sudo rm /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/$USER, but this doesn’t really fix the underlying issue. Adding and then removing the pfp again causes the glitched file to reappear.