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Hi, I use ubuntu 10.04 on a Compaq HP notebook. Recently I formatted my hard disks and reinstalled all the programs. After that I am not able to use the GIMP image editor. When I open GIMP from the applications menu, it opens. Then when I try to open any image, it appears to open the image, but at the last moment, the program disappears from the screen. I also tried to right click on the image and open with GIMP. The same thing happens. The image appears to be loading, then the whole GIMP program disappears from the screen. If other programs are open during this, they are not affected.
I tried restarting the computer. Also I removed GIMP and installed again. I still have the same issue.
I read through the "bug 486122 report". I apologize I am not very conversant with programming, so I am unable to use any of the information given there. Can someone instruct me what needs to be done?
Update: I tried opening a picture of low file size ( 120 kB) and it opened normally in GIMP. Then I tried opening a picture of 1 MB, the program crashed again.
using GEGL version 0.0.22 (compiled against version 0.0.22)
using GLib version 2.24.1 (compiled against version 2.24.1)
using GTK+ version 2.20.1 (compiled against version 2.20.1)
using Pango version 1.28.0 (compiled against version 1.28.0)
using Fontconfig version 2.8.0 (compiled against version 2.8.0)
my output from gimp -v (Slackware64-current, but also valid for Slackware-13.37)
Code:
markus@samsung:~$ gimp -v
GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.6.11
using GEGL version 0.1.2 (compiled against version 0.1.2)
using GLib version 2.28.6 (compiled against version 2.28.3)
using GTK+ version 2.24.4 (compiled against version 2.24.3)
using Pango version 1.28.4 (compiled against version 1.28.3)
using Fontconfig version 2.8.0 (compiled against version 2.8.0)
markus@samsung:~$
I think you should upgrade your distribution, it maybe not reasonable to search for bugs in programs which are quite old.
I had done an update from update manager this morning. The output I posted is after the update. Is there anywhere else I can find the updates you have?
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