Not able to view Images using EOG/Gthumb

[James Freer]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Since last 10 to 15 days, I'm not able to view my captured images in Eye of
> Gnome a default image viewer for Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. whenever I try to open
> a image it displays for fraction of a second and image viewer gets closed
> automatically. Same thing happens with Gthumb as well
>
>  What I've tried is
>
> Reinstalled EOG ( no effect it crashes as before )
> Removed EOG and installed it again ( no luck )
> Installed Gthumb ( same thing happens, it closes it self automatically)
>
>
> when I try to launch eog or Gthumb from command line I'm getting following
> error on the screen after it closes
>
> eog DSCN3282.JPG   or  gthumb DSCN3282.JPG
>
> eog:
> /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.1~really~1.12.10~glasen~ppa1/src/cairo-mempool.c:160:
> get_buddy: Assertion `offset + (1 << bits) <= pool->num_blocks' failed.
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> any idea...?? how to resolve the issue ???

I use both eog and gthumb on 12.04 i386 no problems. I don't know but
the 64bit suggests that's the problem. was the iso checksumed?

james