On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny 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

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.

I realise it is no help to you but I have tried with Ubuntu 8.10 and Gimp 2.6.3 and there was no problem.

Norman

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Hi Chris,

Chris Mohler wrote:

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny 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.

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...

Chris

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Chris Mohler wrote:

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Hi Chris,

Chris Mohler wrote:

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny 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

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:47:28 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote:

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.

What CPU do you have?

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:23:38 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote:

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:47:28 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: >> 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.
> What CPU do you have?
I have an old AMD K6 II /350 MHz.

It's possible that GIMP is compiled for i686 architecture (K6 are Pentium class CPUs), which would cause this error.

I also have this problem. I'm running Windows Vista Basic just because it would have cost $100 extra to get Windows xp, and my CPU is an Intel Celeron.

Windows Vista automatically gives the error message:

Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: gimp-2.6.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 49c4317f
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000 Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000659c3
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 4101
Additional Information 2: a54c3f40c95bb12e850bddc1f7930c21 Additional Information 3: 4b3c
Additional Information 4: c1d5b7e0a808cae75620719d350e4d55

I also have this problem. I'm running Windows Vista Basic just because it

would have cost $100 extra to get Windows xp, and my CPU is an Intel Celeron.

Windows Vista automatically gives the error message:

Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: gimp-2.6.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 49c4317f
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000 Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000659c3
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 4101
Additional Information 2: a54c3f40c95bb12e850bddc1f7930c21 Additional Information 3: 4b3c
Additional Information 4: c1d5b7e0a808cae75620719d350e4d55

I uninstalled Gimp, deleted all related files that the uninstall wizard didn't remove, and installed it again.

The color balance feature no longer causes a massive fail.

I'm rather disappointed: I hadn't saved my work prior to the crash.