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Hund

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Registered: 2010-03-22

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GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

I was using GIMP (2.6) earlier today and it was working fine. A few moments later when I was going to use it again, it wouldnt start anymore. The error message Im getting is:

** Message: Module '/usr/lib/gegl-0.1/exr-load.so' load error: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I havent done anything, no upgrades etc. Google gave me nothing and it didnt help to reinstall GIMP.

Last edited by Hund (2010-05-01 15:29:17)

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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

$  pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6
/usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 is owned by openexr 1.6.1-1
tomas@lappy: ~ $  yase openexr
extra/ilmbase 1.0.1-1 [installed]
  IlmThread is a thread abstraction library for use with OpenEXR
extra/openexr 1.6.1-1 [installed]
  openexr library for EXR images

so...do you have openexr installed? what version?

Hund

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-22

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

Cool. Didnt know that, I'm new to Pacman. Installing openexr solved the problem.

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grey

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

Great! Please mark the thread as solved by editing the titile of the first post.

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xor

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2003-03-20

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

Hi,

having the same problem with a fresh x64 installation.
openexr should be a dependency for gimp package.
I could not find the lib as I did not have openxr installed at all.

Your answer solved the problem but it should be fixed.

Regards,
xor

xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

I wonder why it works for me without openexr...

$ ldd /usr/lib/gegl-0.1/exr-load.so
[...]
    libIlmImf.so.6 => not found
    libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdfeb863000)
    libImath.so.6 => not found
    libHalf.so.6 => not found
    libIex.so.6 => not found
    libIlmThread.so.6 => not found
[...]

$ gimp
** Message: Module '/usr/lib/gegl-0.1/exr-load.so' load error: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
LibGimpModule-Message: Module '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/modules/libcontroller-linux-input.so' load error: libhal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/help-browser: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit-1.0.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gimp:10569): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error

But despite these error messages - which I saw the first time today - gimp works fine.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

Openexr is an optional dependency of gegl which a required dependency of gimp.

Also I had this message:

** Message: Module '/usr/lib/gegl-0.1/ff-load.so' load error: libavformat.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which is because of not having ffmpeg installed. Another optional dependency of gegl.

darkbeanies

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Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 142

Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

Funny how it worked earlier.  Tried installing openexr, ffmpeg and reinstalling gimp, to no avail.  "sudo gimp" worked fine, for some reason.  Probably permissions related, then...or something

Also, I firstly got the error message the OP got.  But after installing openexr, I get no errors at all from command line and gimp just doesn't load.

Edit- Turning the computer off and getting a good night's sleep fixed the problem.

Last edited by darkbeanies (2010-09-26 09:44:13)

ayr0

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Registered: 2010-08-12

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

I had to downgrade openexr and ilmbase to get darktable to work again (running the darktable from git).

Warper4

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Registered: 2009-11-05

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

The same here, but darktable from repo (1.2-2)

I had to downgrade openexr and ilmbase to get darktable to work again (running the darktable from git).

Last edited by Warper4 (2013-04-22 18:58:31)

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: GIMP wont start anymore "load error libIlmImf.so.6: can[..]" [Solved]

ayr0, don't necrobump 3 year old threads. Closing...

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