I’m trying to load a background image into a view, ala the logo tutorials, and when I hit shift-f7, I get the “backgroundpic” button. I select it, then when I hit load Blender crashes (segmentation fault).
Sometimes, I get the file browser up for a moment before the crash, once or twice even long enough to begin to browse, then it crashed.
I’m running 2.23 in Linux (Gentoo), 2.4.20 kernel, however I have tried an older version too, same problem. It just occured to me that I have an older Debian install on this PC too, I’ll try that and update the post.
*Update: I tried it on the Debian Woody system - works fine, but I still can’t get it working on this Gentoo install. It seems likely that I’m missing a dependancy here…sigh
Any thoughts would be appreciated - I’ve been googling like crazy over this, to no avail.
It probably has some problem writing the thumbnail preview file to disk.
What you can do instead is load the picture in the image window (Shift-F10) with the Fileselector button (without preview). That’s the one without anything written on it next to Load (little hint: whenever there’s a Load button for an image, there’s usually a text-less button next to it. That button loads without preview).
Then, go back to the view buttons (Shift-F7) and select the image you just loaded from the “-” pulldown button next to LOAD (there’s also a button like this when creating an image texture).
