Thanks for all the replies to my question about The Gimp: 2009/6/26 Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com>: > On 6/23/09, Rob Hurle <rob1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Due to some meteorological disasters I've had to replace my 6.1 >> FreeBSD system and I've installed 7.2 on the refurbished i386 >> computer: >> >> freebsd [22:03] ~>uname -a >> FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: >> Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 >> >> My desktop is KDE Version 4.2.2 (not yet sure that this is an >> improvement over the previous version). I'm starting to re-install >> software using portupgrade (portinstall). I've a few problems with >> that, but I'll leave that to another post. The immediate problem is >> that I've used portinstall to install gimp (picture processing >> software) which I was happily using on the previous version. It >> installs OK (after a fearful amount of time) but when I start it, I >> get a segmentation fault: >> >> freebsd [22:07] ~>gimp & >> [1] 3696 >> freebsd [22:09] ~> >> [1] Segmentation fault gimp >> freebsd [22:09] ~> >> >> If I run as root, there is no problem: >> >> freebsd [22:09] ~>sudo gimp & >> [1] 3700 >> freebsd [22:10] ~> >> [1] + Suspended (tty output) sudo gimp >> freebsd [22:10] ~>fg >> sudo gimp >> Password: >> >> freebsd [22:11] ~> >> >> It starts OK and I can use it fine. The config file ".gimp-2.6" is >> saved in root's home directory. I've tried RTFM, but there is no >> information on this problem. Maybe it's due to some library having >> the wrong permissions and I should search the system for files with >> 544 permissions or something. Does anyone have a clue as to what's >> going on, or should I report a bug? Thanks heaps. >> >> Rob Hurle > > Rob, > > Any chance you're using something like Kerberos, *SQL, LDAP, NIS, or > some other remote database to login to your system? > > > Is it all local users, or are they all from remote? >
In fact, it is all users. I have now moved back to KDE 3.5.10 (a big improvement over KDE 4.2.2) and the problem is still there - gimp-2.6 runs OK as root, but segfaults when run by any other user. I've reinstalled gimp-app: portupgrade -rR gimp-app still got the problem. I've "solved" it by setting the executable in /usr/local/bin to suid: freebsd [10:24] /usr/local/bin#ll gimp-2.6 -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4245892 20 Jul 14:19 gimp-2.6 Not nice, but it now works with any user, however the ownership of files in the ~/gimp-2.6 directory is now "root". Previously I'd "solved" the problem by running always as root but then it never made a ~/gimp-2.6, but always used the ~root/gimp-2.6 directory, for every user. I've also tried setting the ownership of the executable to bin, but that also fails. Any ideas for a better solution would be welcome. Meanwhile, I'm OK. Rob Hurle -- ----------------------------- Rob Hurle Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538 (Currently in Australia) Mobile (in OZ): +61 417 293 603 (Currently in Australia) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
