Another clue:
After gimp crashed in gdb, I couldn't type
anything in any xterminal.
However, pressing ctl-alt-F1, to go to an old
school console, worked.
That let me kill gdb's process and fix my key
baord.
Another clue, maybe:
gdb reported
Thread 1 "gimp" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7010f49 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@entry=0x82e7b2a0,
detail=detail@entry=0,
instance=instance@entry=0x80ba2288, emission_return=0x0,
instance_and_params=0xbf8000d0)
at ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:3501
3501 ../../../gobject/gsignal.c: No such file or directory.
So,
Kingsley
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