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a1ex

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 92

[solved] Gimp crashes

I have no idea what caused this or what changed since I use gimp rarely. The problem was present with Gimp 2.3 already. First I thought it was due to a missing libgnomeui (gimp complained about it at startup), but it wasnt lethal. Installing it didnt help with this problem.

Gimp 2.3 crashed immediately, 2.4 crashes when creating a new image or performing some options, slice tool leads to a crash for example. I produced following console output by opening gimp and selecting File -> New.

http://nopaste.org/p/anxq1Qruv

/edit [solved]

Great. Just after opening a thread i come accross a soultion. It seems to be a problem with the theme or the theme engine used and crashes on dialogs only.
There is some kind of workaround, you have to start Gimp like this:

G_SLICE=always-malloc gimp

It seems to work.

Last edited by a1ex (2007-10-27 17:26:10)

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 230

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Re: [solved] Gimp crashes

Great. Just after opening a thread i come accross a soultion. It seems to be a problem with the theme or the theme engine used and crashes on dialogs only.
There is some kind of workaround, you have to start Gimp like this:

G_SLICE=always-malloc gimp

It seems to work.

Thanks a heap!

I was in the middle of an important job when I upgraded my gimp and stuck with it in half-working state when I've searched arch forum rapidly to even faster find your post. If not your info, my work would be a half-hell.

My gimp-2.4.1 from current crashed/freezed when I've attempted to use crop or roate tools among others. Setting mentioned system variable before starting program solved this.

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