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Gimp crashes too much

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Gimp crashes too much BGP 23 Jan 14:27
  Gimp crashes too much Martin Nordholts 23 Jan 14:29
  Gimp crashes too much Martin Nordholts 23 Jan 14:31
   Gimp crashes too much BGP 23 Jan 14:36
    Gimp crashes too much Martin Nordholts 23 Jan 14:37
  Gimp crashes too much Elwin Estle 23 Jan 23:53
   Gimp crashes too much BGP 24 Jan 01:31
Gimp crashes too much Jernej Simon?i? 24 Jan 20:45
  Gimp crashes too much photocomix 25 Jan 03:02
BGP
2010-01-23 14:27:59 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp.

How can I fix this?

Martin Nordholts
2010-01-23 14:29:41 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

BGP wrote:

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp. How can I fix this?

Hi!

By figuring out the step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the problems and then file bug reports to bugs.gimp.org so the problems can be fixed

Regards,
Martin

Martin Nordholts
2010-01-23 14:31:37 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

BGP wrote:

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp.

How can I fix this?

Actually, it sounds like you're out of RAM and your computer starts using the disk. This happens if you work with large images and/or have a small amount of RAM. You might want to tweak the tile cache: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-setup-tile-cache.html

/ Martin

BGP
2010-01-23 14:36:00 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

On 10-01-23 08:33 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote:

BGP wrote:

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp.

How can I fix this?

Actually, it sounds like you're out of RAM and your computer starts using the disk. This happens if you work with large images and/or have a small amount of RAM. You might want to tweak the tile cache: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-setup-tile-cache.html

/ Martin

1G of ram is too small for a 4k file?

Martin Nordholts
2010-01-23 14:37:07 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

BGP wrote:

1G of ram is too small for a 4k file?

No, so in that case, figure out a step-by-step instruction on how to reproduce the problem you are having.

/ Martin

Elwin Estle
2010-01-23 23:53:01 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

Just to double check, you are using the actual Gimp and not Gimp-Shop, correct?  There have been people who have posted to this list about problems with Gimp-Shop (which, in my experience anyway, was a major bug fest and crashed all over the place.), but Gimp Shop is NOT an official Gimp package, but something of a hacked up fork off the real Gimp.

--- On Sat, 1/23/10, BGP wrote:

From: BGP Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 8:27 AM

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer.  It just stops working and the screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp.

How can I fix this?

BGP
2010-01-24 01:31:08 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

I'm not using GIMP shop.

On 10-01-23 05:53 PM, Elwin Estle wrote:

Just to double check, you are using the actual Gimp and not Gimp-Shop, correct? There have been people who have posted to this list about problems with Gimp-Shop (which, in my experience anyway, was a major bug fest and crashed all over the place.), but Gimp Shop is NOT an official Gimp package, but something of a hacked up fork off the real Gimp.

--- On *Sat, 1/23/10, BGP //* wrote:

From: BGP Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 8:27 AM

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the
screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

No other program on my machine locks up except gimp.

How can I fix this?

Jernej Simon?i?
2010-01-24 20:45:28 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Gimp crashes too much

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:27:59 -0500, BGP wrote:

Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting.

First, what OS are you running GIMP on?

photocomix
2010-01-25 03:02:16 UTC (almost 15 years ago)
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Gimp crashes too much

First, what OS are you running GIMP on?

And second check the version of gimp (from Help/About) last stable is 2.6.8 ...and yours ?