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azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

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Problem with The Gimp

When trying to use Gimp, filters and color tools as well as most tools work fine. However...everytime I try to smudge or airbrush, as soon as I click on the image to begin Gimp crashes. Any ideas here?

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azwethinkweiz

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

Here is the message Im given in terminal when it crashes

gimp
The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 166503 error_code 3 request_code 39 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

(script-fu:8687): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

Are you using 2.3.17 by any chance? If so, there was a major bug introduced in it. In fact, it was posted at gimp.org right after 2.3.17 was released. They said that 2.3.18 would be soon to replace it, but as the time I posted, it wasn't out.

azwethinkweiz

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

nope im using 2.2.15

Last edited by azwethinkweiz (2007-06-06 02:31:52)

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azwethinkweiz

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

However I just installed 2.3.15 which I found in the repos...and it does the exact same thing. Could this be a bug in X somehow?...and Is anyone else having this issue?

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skottish

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

I just regressed back to 2.3.16 and same deal. I can say for sure that this is new. I use Gimp all the time and today is the first of seen of this.

------EDIT-------

It is for sure libx11-1.1.2-1. Filing a bug report...

Last edited by skottish (2007-06-06 02:50:40)

azwethinkweiz

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

Me too...I use it almost daily and have never encounterd this problem. I also tried gimpshop, and both the stabl and development versions and they all do the same thing. Which leads me to believe this may be an issue with X rather than Gimp

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skottish

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

Look up one post. I'm filing now.

azwethinkweiz

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

I just regressed back to 2.3.16 and same deal. I can say for sure that this is new. I use Gimp all the time and today is the first of seen of this.

------EDIT-------

It is for sure libx11-1.1.2-1. Filing a bug report...

Nice...I was about to do the same thing

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skottish

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

If anyone want to add anything:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7370

azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Problem with The Gimp

So I see that they have changed libx11 in the repos to 1.1.1-4 in order to temporarily fix this. However when I try to go back to 1.1.1-4 from 1.1.2-1...it tells me this:

warning: libx11: local (1.1.2-1) is newer than current (1.1.1-4)
:: libx11-1.1.2-1: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] y
:: Archive libx11-1.1.1-4.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n
error: failed to commit transaction (corrupted package)
archive libx11-1.1.1-4.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I didnt delete the package in hopes it may install anyway...but as you can see that didnt work. So obviously Im still having the same issue with gimp. Has anyone else tried to regress back to 1.1.1-4?

I saw in the bug report that they forced the downgrade, but my system wont downgrade...it stays with 1.1.2-1

Last edited by azwethinkweiz (2007-06-06 17:58:23)

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Snowman

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Re: Problem with The Gimp

Answer yes (y) to the "Archive libx11-1.1.1-4.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? " question. The package needs to be redownloaded.