On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Hmm - running out of ideas. How about 'sudo aptitude purge gimp' then 'sudo aptitude install gimp' (watch for any warnings or errors)? Try running GIMP from a terminal again. Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
