[Gimp-developer] bogus floating selection code?

[peter sikking]

David Gowers wrote:

> I had just pasted a piece of image (copied from a layer without alpha,
> pasted back on to a layer without alpha) and, as I clicked to anchor
> it, GIMP crashed with this message:
>
> ERROR:gegl-node.c:1929:gegl_node_remove_child: assertion failed:
> (child_priv->parent == self || child_priv->parent == NULL)
>
> I'm guessing this is a fairly simple mistake, so I posted here (mainly
> for Mitch's benefit).  It's difficult to reproduce, though.
> I had only used pencil (with 1px brush) and bucketfill (threshold = 0)
> before the crash occurred.


or a lot of layer (mask) create. I can consistently crash svn GIMP
on this, but not fresh put of the box.

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