[Gimp-developer] bogus floating selection code?

[Michael Natterer]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:34 +0100, peter sikking wrote:
> 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.

I can't reproduce this at all.

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

And I don't understand this at all ;)

ciao,
--mitch