Hi Evan,

though I use GIMP with LINUX, what I really recommend, I will try to help you.
As I see, the verbose output shows nothing suspicous.

A few questions:

1. Before you killed GIMP in the task manager, what happend? It might be the same problem why GIMP now doesn't start at all. 2. When installing GIMP new, you should edit the registry before. It's possible that there is a conflict with a registry entry from the previous instattation.

Greeings

Bernd

evan neumann schrieb:

I have been using Gimp for a few years now and have become very dependent on it for my personal project: orbitingeden.com

But I aborted a process a few weeks ago by using Task Manager to end the gimp.exe process. When I restarted my computer, Gimp would not restart. I unistalled Gimp, removed the local files and then re-installed. But still no joy.

I have looked all over the interwebs looking for the problem but still can't find anything wrong. I have attached the gimp console output when started in --verbose:

gimp-fail.gif

My computer is running Windows XP Professional SP3 on an AMD Athlon chip and 2 Gigs of RAM.

Thanks in advance,

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Hi Evan,

though I use GIMP with LINUX, what I really recommend, I will try to help you.
As I see, the verbose output shows nothing suspicous.

A few questions:

1. Before you killed GIMP in the task manager, what happend? It might be the same problem why GIMP now doesn't start at all. 2. When installing GIMP new, you should edit the registry before. It's possible that there is a conflict with a registry entry from the previous instattation.

Greeings

Bernd

evan neumann schrieb:

I have been using Gimp for a few years now and have become very dependent on it for my personal project: orbitingeden.com

But I aborted a process a few weeks ago by using Task Manager to end the gimp.exe process. When I restarted my computer, Gimp would not restart. I unistalled Gimp, removed the local files and then re-installed. But still no joy.

I have looked all over the interwebs looking for the problem but still can't find anything wrong. I have attached the gimp console output when started in --verbose:

gimp-fail.gif

My computer is running Windows XP Professional SP3 on an AMD Athlon chip and 2 Gigs of RAM.

Thanks in advance,

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:10 +0100, Bernd Weber wrote:

2. When installing GIMP new, you should edit the registry before. It's possible that there is a conflict with a registry entry from the previous instattation.

GIMP doesn't use registry (the installer does, but if there was something wrong, the installer would be failing, not GIMP).

O.K. I think, before Evan installs GIMP again, he should be sure that the previous installation is cleared totally.

I forgot one thing. in his User-Directory a GIMP-directory is created containing his personal GIMP-profile. If a new try also fails, he could create a new user profile on windows and try it again.

Greetings

Bernd

Jernej Simončič schrieb:

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:10 +0100, Bernd Weber wrote:

2. When installing GIMP new, you should edit the registry before. It's possible that there is a conflict with a registry entry from the previous instattation.

GIMP doesn't use registry (the installer does, but if there was something wrong, the installer would be failing, not GIMP).

I haven't been following this thread too closely, but have you tried renaming the profile directory? I'm guessing something in there is corrupt, causing the hang.

On XP it's:

C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username_here]\.gimp-2.6

(Could also be .gimp-2.7)

I'd rename that (".gimp-2.6-backup") and restart gimp. See what happens.

-James

That was what I have mentioned before:

To be more exact: In your user-directory there is a GIMP-directory with your specifed GIMP-Profile
You can either rename or delete it. Gimp will try then to create a new one. If that doesn't work,
You can create a new user-profile in your windows XP-installation an try everything agein. May be there locally got something awry.

Hope you are lucky.

Bernd

James schrieb:

I haven't been following this thread too closely, but have you tried renaming the profile directory? I'm guessing something in there is corrupt, causing the hang.

On XP it's:

C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username_here]\.gimp-2.6

(Could also be .gimp-2.7)

I'd rename that (".gimp-2.6-backup") and restart gimp. See what happens.

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On 01/12/2012 06:00 PM, evan neumann wrote:

I have been using Gimp for a few years now and have become very dependent on it for my personal project: orbitingeden.com

But I aborted a process a few weeks ago by using Task Manager to end the gimp.exe process. When I restarted my computer, Gimp would not restart.

Hey Evan,

If this is standing in the way of a deadline, you might want to try using the portable version until the real problem is fixed:

http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

It is very (very!) likely that this will run normally on your system.

:o/

Steve

On 01/13/2012 06:54 PM, evan neumann wrote:

Bernd gets a gold star!

Creating a new User Account worked. But now I am left with the quandary of whether to migrate all usage to the new account or try to troubleshoot this user account. I did delete the C:\Documents and Setting\ [username]\.gimp-2.6 folder and all of it's contents several times. Are there files elsewhere that I can delete?

Take a look at the directory tree under \...\Local Settings\Application Data\ in your "real" user account. Right now I don't have access to a Windows box, and the interwebs are stubbornly refusing to show me a listing of the default directory tree for XP user accounts, but you get the idea: There is a directory for storing application data, with subdirectories for individual programs. If you open your top level user account directory in Windows Explorer and do a global search for "gimp," a directory you did not remove earlier might show up.

:o/

Steve

Hi Evan,

obviously it's not GIMP that caused the trouble, but windows. When creating a new user account worked but not setting up the GIMP-directory anew there got somethng wrong in the guts of windows. GIMP doesn't store user data at another place. I don't know where windows stores all configuration information for user directories.
I would recommend you to migrate all user-data to the new directory or to an exchange folder and to work on the new account. If you got some time you can try to debug the old account.

As a hint, search for files which were altered shortly before or after you killed GIMP in the task manager.

Thank you for the gold star. ;)

Hope you are lucky

Bernd

evan neumann schrieb:

Bernd gets a gold star!

Creating a new User Account worked. But now I am left with the quandary of whether to migrate all usage to the new account or try to troubleshoot this user account. I did delete the C:\Documents and Setting\ [username]\.gimp-2.6 folder and all of it's contents several times. Are there files elsewhere that I can delete?

thanks, evan

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bernd Weber > wrote:

That was what I have mentioned before:

To be more exact: In your user-directory there is a GIMP-directory with your specifed GIMP-Profile
You can either rename or delete it. Gimp will try then to create a new one. If that doesn't work,
You can create a new user-profile in your windows XP-installation an try
everything agein. May be there locally got something awry.

Hope you are lucky.

Bernd

James schrieb: > I haven't been following this thread too closely, but have you tried > renaming the profile directory? I'm guessing something in there is > corrupt, causing the hang.
>
> On XP it's:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username_here]\.gimp-2.6 >
> (Could also be .gimp-2.7)
>
> I'd rename that (".gimp-2.6-backup") and restart gimp. See what happens.
>
> -James
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Another alternative, if you want to dig further, is to use Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645). Run that, filter on "gimp", and look at what it accesses during startup. Somewhere in that last is a) a file it reads that is corrupt, or b) a file that's missing. Either way, you'll see exactly what files gimp touches on startup, and there might be some surprises there.

I've used that before to find startup problems with programs accessing files in places I did not suspect. Very useful.

-James

Has anyone else seen this type of issue before? This is on a brand new install of Linux Mint 12 and GIMP is installed from Synaptics. I have seen this same behavior several times when installing Mint/Ubuntu and using the package manager across two totally different physical machines.

However, on the same install(have not done on this machine yet), building 2.7.x from source(git) does NOT have this problem. The tablet is a Wacome Bamboo Fun CTE-650. Note that the problem seems to have popped up on Ubuntu 11.10 as I don't remember it happening on previous version, but I won't swear to that as I have installed my Laptop several times (turns out it is likely a hardware issue with the power controller "card" going bad instead of software issues as I thought.. hence the reinstalls) in the past 4-5 months or so(whenever 11.10 came out, I installed it the same day.)

Here is link to a picture showing the funky behavior. Basically, in the image, I am drawing a line roughly diagonally from the top right to bottom left and GIMP freaks out and "draws" a line either to the top or right of the image. Note that it's fairly inconsistent.. sometimes it will happen not happen at all for several "lines" other times it might happen multiple times in a single line(as in the screenshot). Also, I can't say one way or another if the issue has to do with direction of the line, but I think I have reproduced drawing in other directions also.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/77426/Screenshot%20at%202012-01-15%2019%3A47%3A46.png