[Gimp-user] GEGL crashes Gimp 2.6.6 on XP

[John]

Martin,

I have tried this work around and the results are the same. The crash still
occurs.
System is a P4 2GB XP home SP3 with all current updates applied. 

Looking forward to the next release.
John

>With some help from Jernej I have now been able too look into this 
>problem. It would be of great help if people with crashes when doing:
>
>  1. Start GIMP
>  2. Create new default image
>  3. Tools -> GEGL Operation...
>
>could try to move
>
>  C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\lib\gegl-0.0\load-buffer.dll
>
>into a temporary dir, just so that GEGL does not pick up load-buffer.dll 
>when starting.
>
>On my tests on Vista SP2, removing this GEGL operation from the 
>operations GEGL loads gets rid of this particular crash, and I suspect 
>this will get rid of this particular crash on XP systems as well.
>
>If anyone is able to confirm that removing/moving load-buffer.dll fixes 
>the above crash, please let me know and report what version of Windows 
>you are using.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Martin
>
>

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