GNOME background being imposed on another background

[Michael DePaulo]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Right now, as seen in the attachment, one background is being imposed on another background. You can find the two backgrounds in:
/usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos

I selected the cosmos slideshow for my background under the appearance preferences. My system has been running with this background set for about a day.

Ironically, neither compiz nor any other compositing manager is enabled. I disabled the normal desktop effects (and thus compiz) yesterday to address the adobe flash mouse click issue.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 3 09:39:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Michael DePaulo (mikedep333)]

I would also like to add that the background is stuck (not changing) and nautilus is using 2.1 GB of RAM with no nautilus windows open (although I did do some large searches recently with it.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue is not clear from the description though

[Michael DePaulo (mikedep333)]

Please take a look at the image I attached, and then take a look at the two images:
/usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/sombrero.jpg
/usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/whirlpoop.jpg

[Michael DePaulo (mikedep333)]

whoops, I meant /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/whirlpool.jpg

[Scott M. Sanders (scottmsanders)]

I'm getting this too. Changing to another background and back fixes it, until it happens again.

My PC is 32-bit though.

Also, maybe related, my computer's idle time is no longer reported after a while, thus my screensaver no longer fires, until I log out and back in.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu and Nautilus better by reporting this bug.
Do the wallpapers get stuck right away, or only after your system has been running for a while already? If you could find anything in /var/log/messages related to this I would be most grateful, but just more information on what causes the slideshow to get stuck would be enough as well.

[Scott M. Sanders (scottmsanders)]

For me, it happens after a long while. It has not happened lately though. The only items I found in the messages log from the day I reported it (and 24 hours prior) are what follows:

Nov 26 07:50:53 scott-laptop rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="918" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Nov 26 09:02:22 scott-laptop pulseaudio[18510]: ratelimit.c: 102 events suppressed

I see that pulseaudio a lot (?) even now but don't think it's related.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I've reported the issue upstream with a request for help and I hope the developers of Nautilus will be able to provide us with some clues. If you've got more information, please add it.