GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 165599
"Desktop Background Preferences" crashes on startup
Last modified: 2005-01-30 10:49:13 UTC
Distribution: Debian 3.1 Package: control-center Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.8.1 2.8.1 Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: "Desktop Background Preferences" crashes on startup Bugzilla-Product: control-center Bugzilla-Component: background Bugzilla-Version: 2.8.1 BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.8.0) Description: Description of the crash: "Desktop Background Preferences" crashes on startup How often does this happen? Every time Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-background-properties' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/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) (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) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 1747)] [New Thread 32769 (LWP 1748)] [New Thread 16386 (LWP 1749)] [New Thread 32771 (LWP 1750)] [New Thread 49156 (LWP 1751)] (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) 0x40a28c0b in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
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------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2005-01-29 07:31 ------- Unknown version 2.8.1 in product control-center. Setting version to "2.8.x". Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "control-center". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was a.donda@web.de. Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
could you send your ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml ? That's probably a duplicate of #146130 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146130 ***
Created attachment 36711 [details] gnome2 wallpapers config Here it is. I don't think its a duplicate of that other bug, because there are no non-ascii characters in the file. Actually, there was one, a German umlaut-o in a file name, coded as a hexadecimal entity. I removed the corresponding entry, to check if the crashing disappears, and it didn't. I have to admit in the process I lost the original version, sorry.
thanks, that's a duplicate, the file has a "<name></name>"