Can not change background

[Tim]

On 22/10/13 13:07, Mark Blakeney wrote:
> Thanks Tim. As I just added on the bug, I was proceeding to generate a
> bug report but I discovered that the problem is likely to be related to
> the standard gnome image viewer, eog. Eog displays most jpeg files
> on my system in corrupted form, usually most of the image is black but
> sometimes I see corrupted terminal windows (probably mine). All other
> image viewers show the images fine (e.g. feh, chrome, firefox, gimp,
> imagemagick, etc). I also find that gnome-control-center crashes trying
> to add a background whether I have "File manager manages the desktop" or
> not. I have changed by default viewer to feh so now all images look fine
> when I click on them in Nautilus etc now, but the "change background"
> function still crashes. I was able to actually change the background
> image by right clicking in Nautilus and "set as background".
Irrespective of eog and nautilus, gnome-control-center should not crash when
setting the background. I will push an updated 3.8.5 package and if it still happens after that
please do file a crash report with backtrace.

>
> I had a look around launchpad for eog bug reports like above and found
> quite a few describing the same symptoms, mostly from older versions of
> Ubuntu though. Just seems like at 13.10 I have picked up one of those 
> random annoying Ubuntu ghost bugs that haunt around launchpad forever.
>
> I have found a few other bugs in my fresh install of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 
> and have added/annotated them on launchpad. The broken keyboard shortcuts 
> is the most serious imho.
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