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Bug 152548 - Unable to change background display settings
Unable to change background display settings
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146130
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-13 21:40 UTC by n.nobbe
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description n.nobbe 2004-09-13 21:40:31 UTC 
Distribution: Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
Package: gnome-desktop
Severity: normal
Version: GNOME2.6. unspecified
Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc
Synopsis: Unable to change background display settings
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-desktop
Bugzilla-Component: general
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.6.0)
Description:
Description of the crash:
Changing my desktop resolution from 800 x 600 to 1024 x 768) resulted in
the error - "gnome-background-properties" and changed my background from
blue to black - and no way to change my default background.

Steps to reproduce the crash:
1. Selected Desktop Background Preferences from Gnome menu
2. 
3. 

Expected Results:
Error message box with the following message:
The Application "gnome-background-properties" has quit unexpectedly.



How often does this happen?
Always.

Additional Information:



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-background-properties'

(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -151108960 (LWP 2762)]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0x0055c7a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80
() from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

+ Trace 50114

Thread 1 (Thread -151108960 (LWP 2762))

  • #0 _dl_sysinfo_int80
    from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
  • #1 __waitpid_nocancel
    from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
  • #2 libgnomeui_module_info_get
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #3 <signal handler called>
  • #4 g_str_hash
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #5 g_hash_table_lookup
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #6 gnome_wp_main_quit
  • #7 ??
  • #0 _dl_sysinfo_int80
    from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-09-13 17:40 -------


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Comment 1 Vincent Noel 2004-09-14 14:34:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146130 ***