Chris Mohler wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> Chris Mohler wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there >>>> closes abruptly when I open "Colors > Color Balance...". >>>> I removed 2.6.1 and got a .deb package of 2.6.3 (with libgimp >>>> and gimp-data), but here's exactly the same behavior. Does >>>> anyone know how to fix this? Is this a known issue? Under >>>> Ubuntu 8.04, I worked with Gimp 2.4.5 and never experienced >>>> anything like this. >>> Hi Claus, >>> >>> I also upgraded to 8.10 (and therefore GIMP 2.6.1) and cannot >>> reproduce your problem. Have you tried running GIMP from the terminal >>> and looking for an error message? >> I just ran Gimp from a terminal, and I am getting >> >> "(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): >> error >> Illegal instruction" >> >> after it closes. > > Do you have 3rd-party plug-ins installed? Try renaming your > ~/.gimp-2.6 folder to ~/.gimp-2.6_OLD and restarting GIMP - if that > solves it, you'll need to copy the plug-ins back one at a time to find > the culprit.
I did that, but to no avail. :-( And I don't have any plug-ins installed, yet. > >> A shot in the dark, but maybe >>> rename all of your ~/.gimp-2.x folders to ~/.gimp-2.x-OLD ? Are you >>> running compiz, BTW? >> >> What is compiz? > > In Gnome, compiz is the "Desktop Effects" > (System->Preferences->Appearance, effects tab). Sometimes it behaves > badly with other programs... I checked this, but I have desktop effects disabled. Claus _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
