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I don't know where to start searching for a solution to this problem. I am having frequent crashes in GIMP which is a problem for me as I do art and design work, not to mention I am screencasting!
1 - The computer I'm using is specifically built for linux, namely ubuntu, so I will assume that the hardware and drivers are the best they can be.
2 - When GIMP crashes I look in syslog and see varied reports including segfault or kernel problems.
3 - There doesn't seem to be a specific error log for GIMP???
I haven't had need or desire to file a bug report in many years, I am not sure where I should go for help to make this problem stop.
The usual culprit was reported as "segfault" in syslog, and now I can not even open an image without a crash followed by the following in syslog.
Code:
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470955] Tainted: P OE 3.16.0-37-generic #51~14.04.1-Ubuntu
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470956] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470958] gimp-2.8 D ffff88026ec130c0 0 17614 2258 0x00000004
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470962] ffff8801b6153b38 0000000000000086 ffff88021a06dbb0 ffff8801b6153fd8
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470965] 00000000000130c0 00000000000130c0 ffff88022a5d4750 ffff8800362f9a00
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470968] ffff88024b414000 ffff8801b6153b60 ffff8800362f9ae0 ffff8800362f9a00
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470971] Call Trace:
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470978] [<ffffffff817691a9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470984] [<ffffffff812c0965>] __fuse_request_send+0x115/0x280
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470989] [<ffffffff810b4e50>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470993] [<ffffffff812c0ae2>] fuse_request_send+0x12/0x20
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.470997] [<ffffffff812c4d24>] fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x194/0x350
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.471003] [<ffffffff811deb7d>] lookup_fast+0x26d/0x2c0
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.471007] [<ffffffff811e17b9>] link_path_walk+0x1d9/0x8a0
May 16 21:01:11 dream-gears kernel: [327960.471012] [<ffffffff8132bc5b>] ? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x5b/0x180
Although after a reboot, I'm sure that all will be fine again, but I would rather not have a crash "ever", if that is possible.
any advice, random feedback or commentary all appreciated.
2 - Gimp 2.8.14 which is latest I believe. I did update if from 2.8.10 (or earlier) after the crashes started, which stopped crashing significantly, but I did still have a crash after the upgrade.
3 - I have also had a lot of crashes in Chrome, so I went back to Firefox which seems stable, at least much more than Chrome.
4 - When Gimp crashes, all other software seems fine.
5 - There is no /var/log/messages in my system....? plenty of other logs, but not this one...
If there is no /var/log/messages in your system, it's because Ubuntu has decided to call it something else. I've noticed in Mint, which I am running on one computer, that canonical (you will pardon the expression) names of log files have been changed for as far as I can see no good reason.
What is the output of
Code:
ls /var/log
For comparison purposes, here is what I get on this here Slackware computer:
Aside: The reason I've purchased my native Linux computers from Zareason is that I was able to get them without Ubuntu. Ubuntu lost me with Unity, but that's just me.
If there is no /var/log/messages in your system, it's because Ubuntu has decided to call it something else. I've noticed in Mint, which I am running on one computer, that canonical (you will pardon the expression) names of log files have been changed for as far as I can see no good reason.
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then it is not a issue with Gimp but with your operating system or hardware
did you recently UPGRADE major versions of ubuntu ?
Quote:
Gimp 2.8.14 which is latest I believe. I did update if from 2.8.10 (or earlier) after the crashes started, which stopped crashing significantly, but I did still have a crash after the upgrade.
how did you go about this ?
for "the Gimp" I build the current stable AND the current development nightly ( the odd number 2.9)
On the whole, everything seems to be working fine, in fact when Chrome was crashing, I genuinely felt as though that was Chrome's own fault. Firefox has been running stable to support that theory.
I did not, and will not do a major upgrade, I am sticking with 14.04 because of the trailing "LTS" in its title, as I don't like to reinstall OS'es from scratch every 6 months after breaking them. excuse my sarcasm please.
I installed the latest Gimp, which will not come through 14.04 packaging system, by adding a PPA to my repos.
Gimp was previously crashing MUCH MORE often before the update to 2.8.14, now it seems to be better but I had this sudden crash today in the middle of a screencast video (very frustrating and much work lost) and so I wanted to investigate and hopefully fix this problem once and for all.
I hope that answers all of your questions, and feel free to ask more. And do you think I should register a bug? Or can we not determine at this point whether it is Gimp or Ubuntu?
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