diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.24.1.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.24.1.bb
index 2377d0eec1..33a43becaa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.24.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.24.1.bb
@@ -63,12 +63,26 @@ if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
 # we trick the gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders into scanning the native shared
 # objects and then we remove the NATIVE_ROOT prefix from the paths in
 # loaders.cache.
-gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders $(find $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders \
-        -name *.so | sed -e "s:$D:$NATIVE_ROOT:g") > \
-        $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.cache || exit 1
+gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders $(ls -d -1 $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders/*.so |\
+        sed -e "s:$D:$NATIVE_ROOT:g") > \
+        $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.cache \
+        2>$D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.err
+
+# gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders always returns 0, so we need to check if loaders.err
+# has anything in it
+if [ -s $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.err ]; then
+	echo "${PN} postinstall scriptlet failed:"
+	cat $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.err
+	rm $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.err
+	# we've got errors, postpone postinstall for first boot
+	exit 1
+fi
 
 sed -i -e "s:$NATIVE_ROOT:/:g" $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.cache
 
+# remove the empty loaders.err
+rm $D/${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${LIBV}/loaders.err
+
 exit 0
 fi