[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there
> closes abruptly when I open "Colors > Color Balance...".
> I removed 2.6.1 and got a .deb package of 2.6.3 (with libgimp
> and gimp-data), but here's exactly the same behavior. Does
> anyone know how to fix this? Is this a known issue? Under
> Ubuntu 8.04, I worked with Gimp 2.4.5 and never experienced
> anything like this.

Hi Claus,

I also upgraded to 8.10 (and therefore GIMP 2.6.1) and cannot
reproduce your problem.  Have you tried running GIMP from the terminal
and looking for an error message?  A shot in the dark, but maybe
rename all of your ~/.gimp-2.x folders to ~/.gimp-2.x-OLD ?  Are you
running compiz, BTW?

Chris