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jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

Posts: 162

Bringing up BL Image Viewer fails

I have moved from some very old PCs to a PC that is roughly 10 years old so that I can take advantage of having a tera-byte of memory available. I have installed BL bookworm on the PC and things are progressing, but I am having a problem with BL Image Viewer.

When I bring up BL Image Viewer and click on file-->open, I can navigate to the directory of the images that I want to view. But when I double click on any of the jpeg images, the BL Image Viewer crashes.

I looked in /var/log, but I did not see anything related to the crash.

As part of my migration to a much larger internal memory, I have been removing many symbolic links and placing many referenced directories in what is now my primary directory in /home. I suspect that old symbolic links that need to be removed may be causing the crashes, but I am getting no feedback from the system that would give me an idea what is causing the problem.

Can anyone suggest how I can track down what is causing the BL Image Viewer to fail? Any help will be much appreciated.

Jim A.

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Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: Bringing up BL Image Viewer fails

^^start the ImgeViewer in the terminal and then carry out the procedure. 

jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

Posts: 162

Re: Bringing up BL Image Viewer fails

Thanks for the help! This is closed.

I brought up the image viewer from the command line and it came up ok. When I tried reading in an image, it crashed, but it gave me error messages, one of which reported it could not read a directory that was a symbolic link that point to a directory that no longer existed because of my restructuring of my directories.

I fixed the link and the image view works now.

I had problems with a few other programs and I am guessing the source of the problem is similar.

Jim A