This happens to me with some files that have the mime type image/png but have a .bmp extension. Not sure how the files ended up that way to begin with, but I suppose that's beside the point. In that particular use case, then it is useful to have a pointer here to https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/172416
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350040 Title: Image viewer will not read .bmp images Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: eog The default image viewer used to view .bmp images perfectly. In fact, just a few minutes ago, it worked perfectly. A friend sent me a .bmp file and I attempted to open it with the default image viewer in Ubuntu 8.10. Thought I'd looked at the same image less than 3 minutes prior, it now won't show the images, sending me an error that BMP image has bogus header data. This happens with every bitmap file I try to open now. I've checked it with the Gimp and they open perfectly. I've also tried them in F-Spot and they open perfectly. The only change happened when I was highlighting a folder full of .bmp images to delete. A menu opened at random just as I was releasing the mouse buttom, it highlighted the top option and I have no idea what happened from there but now .bmp images won't open, even ones that have been on my computer for the past 3 months. It's not a huge deal for me, but it's something that should be fixed. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/eog NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: eog 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: eog Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/350040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp