GIMP not running

dnskdas · 05-01-2009, 11:36 PM

I am using fedora 9 in a dual booting system along with windows XP. Problem is, recently, while try to run GIMP, I found it is not running. When I click it from graphics submenu, twirling is taking place for few moments and then it stops without anything coming on the screen. After that I removed it by yum and reinstalled successfully by yum again. But still nothing is coming. What could be the problem and how to solve it? Please help..

John VV · 05-02-2009, 01:02 AM

what is the error when you try to start it from the terminal

Code:

gimp

or
gimp-2.6
or
gimp-2.6.6

how did you install gimp ?
from the install dvd ?
with yum

Code:

yum install gimp

or build it from source ?

dnskdas · 05-03-2009, 07:28 AM

Thanks for your reply.
The following are the results when run the different options that you suggested, from the terminal :

Code:

[sanjit@localhost ~]$ gimp
gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: babl_get_version
[sanjit@localhost ~]$ gimp-2.6
gimp-2.6: symbol lookup error: gimp-2.6: undefined symbol: babl_get_version
[sanjit@localhost ~]$ gimp-2.6.6
bash: gimp-2.6.6: command not found
[sanjit@localhost ~]$

My version is 2.6 as I have checked from its properties.

I initially installed GIMP from install DVD while installing Fedora 9 and it used to work. But now when I found it is not working, I first removed it by

Code:

sudo yum remove gimp

then reinstalled it by

Code:

sudo yum install gimp*

Hope it clarified my problem.

colucix · 05-03-2009, 08:25 AM

The problem is in the libbabl library, which should have been installed as dependency of gimp. Try to look how many libbabl objects have you installed on your system:

Code:

sudo ldconfig -p | grep libbabl

dnskdas · 05-04-2009, 01:23 AM

Here is the result:

Code:

[sanjit@localhost ~]$ sudo ldconfig -p | grep libbabl
	libbabl-0.0.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libbabl-0.0.so.0
[sanjit@localhost ~]$

colucix · 05-04-2009, 02:56 AM

It is correct. Maybe a corrupted library? Another test you can run is

Code:

$ ldd /usr/bin/gimp | grep libbabl
        libbabl-0.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbabl-0.0.so.0 (0xb7751000)

to see if the gimp executable is linked to the correct shared object, and

Code:

$ rpm -V libbabl-0_0-0
$

to verify the integrity of the package (no output, package ok). Substitute the correct name of the libbabl package in the command above (mine is opensuse, fedora may differ).

Eventually, can you try to uninstall libbabl and reinstall it again using yum?

dnskdas · 05-06-2009, 12:02 PM

Thanks Colucix.
I have run your first suggested command and the result is:

Code:


	Code:
	[sanjit@localhost ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/gimp | grep libbabl
	libbabl-0.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbabl-0.0.so.0 (0x00a0d000)

For the second one I have to know tha exact name of the package in my case.

For reinstalling, what should be the commandline? I have tried

Quote:

sudo yum install libbabl*

but it is saying no package called libbabl*

The bug buddy gives the following error report:

Quote:

Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Gnome Release: 2.22.1 2008-04-30 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0

System: Linux 2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 23:53:07 EST 2009 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10499901
Selinux: Permissive
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: CurvyLooks
Icon Theme: Tango

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

----------- .xsession-errors (99 sec old) ---------------------
Tracker version 0.6.6 Copyright (c) 2005-2007 by Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc@gnome.org)
This program is free software and comes without any warranty.
It is licensed under version 2 or later of the General Public License which can be viewed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Initialising tracker...
starting HAL detection for ac adaptors...none found
** (nautilus:3131): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
beagled will run in the background.
Use beagle-status to check progress of beagled.
For log files check /home/sanjit/.beagle/Log/current-Beagle.
Throttle level is 0
--------------------------------------------------

colucix · 05-06-2009, 12:14 PM

In Fedora 9 the package name is simply babl, so that you can try

Code:

$ rpm -V babl

to verify the package. If something is wrong, you can uninstall and reinstall using:

Code:

# yum remove babl
# yum install babl

John VV · 05-06-2009, 12:27 PM

gegl is a dependency of babl so you might also need to reinstall gegl

but seeing as i build babl-0.22,gegl-0.22, and gimp2.6.5 ( soon to be 2.6.6 )

i don't have that problem

but reinstalling the babl and gegl rpm's should do it .If not then also reinstall the gimp rpm

Code:

su -
yum erase babl gegl gimp 
yum clean all 
rpm --rebuilddb 
yum install gimp

dnskdas · 05-07-2009, 04:34 AM

Thanks a lot Colucix & John VV. I got my gimp running again

after removing babl & gegl by

Code:

sudo yum erase babl gegl

and then reinstalling by

Code:


	Code:
	sudo rpm --rebuilddb 
sudo yum install gimp* gnome-scan-libs xsane-gimp

Thanks once more you experts.