[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny at web.de> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny at web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> Chris Mohler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> I just ran Gimp from a terminal, and I am getting
>>>
>>> "(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read():
>>> error
>>> Illegal instruction"
>>>
>>> after it closes.
>>
>> Do you have 3rd-party plug-ins installed?  Try renaming your
>> ~/.gimp-2.6 folder to ~/.gimp-2.6_OLD and restarting GIMP - if that
>> solves it, you'll need to copy the plug-ins back one at a time to find
>> the culprit.
>
> I did that, but to no avail. :-( And I don't have any plug-ins
> installed, yet.
>
>>
>>>  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?
>>>
>>> What is compiz?
>>
>> In Gnome, compiz is the "Desktop Effects"
>> (System->Preferences->Appearance, effects tab).  Sometimes it behaves
>> badly with other programs...
>
> I checked this, but I have desktop effects disabled.

Hmm - running out of ideas.  How about 'sudo aptitude purge gimp'
then 'sudo aptitude install gimp' (watch for any warnings or errors)?
Try running GIMP from a terminal again.

Chris