Hopefully, it is permissible to post on this problem here. I downloaded/installed the PPA for Gimp 2.9.1. It worked great for the first half dozen 16-bit tiffs.
I use a few RAW converters to create these tiff tiles, RawTherapee, UFRAW, and the Sony software supplied with my A700 DSLR, Image Data Converter running through Wine.

At any rate, most of the tiffs I create now cause Gimp to crash when opening new files. I get this message:

Plug-in crashed: "file-tiff-load"

and

Opening '/home/caruso/Desktop/PHOTOS from IDC/DSC06219.tif' failed:

Files created previously continue to open as normal.

What could be the problem.

I was so thrilled to have succeeded in installing 2.9.1 on my system, but now may have to uninstall it and fall back to 2.8.x.

I realize that 2.9.1 is experimental and unstable, but would like to know if this is something simple that can be fixed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Caruso

Hi, Caruso,

IMHO the Gimp developers have done their work. Please update to the current version from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp-edge

I hope this helps

I try to reproduce your issue.

Cheers

Otto