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Hi Guy,
I am going through some old bug reports.
On 2011-08-08 02:40 +0200, Guy Heatley wrote:
> Package: gimp
> Version: 2.6.11-3+b1
> Severity: serious
>
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>
> Whilst running GIMP the X system freezes. It seems to happen at random,
> but perhaps more often during opening / saving files.
>
> The GUI is then completely locked up. I have to log into my machine via
> SSH in order to safely power it down. I cannot kill the X session
> either: the monitors still display the state when it crashed and
> strangely the mouse still responds to movement. ps aux reports a defunct
> gnome2 session, which kill -9 won't touch.
>
> I use the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau graphics driver, and there have
> been similar bugs with that in the past, but it seems now that GIMP
> triggers the freeze (i.e. only GIMP, and consistently GIMP). In the past
> similar "GUI lock-up" type bugs (in nouveau) were random.
>
> It makes GIMP pretty much unusable for me!
It's a problem with the graphics driver, not the application that
triggers it. If you still have this problem, please send the output of
"/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3>&1".
Cheers,
Sven
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