So you think that the older gimp version that I am using is the issue?  If I had a newer gimp version, it would work just fine?

John Culleton wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 09:32:21 am Steven M. Dodier wrote:
  
Hello,

Hoping someone can help resolve this problem.  I have done
searches of archives and web sites without much luck.  I know
this version is a little old, but I don't have any  control over
updating the installation.  My problem is related to gimp
(2.2.17).  I can start gimp from an nfs export with no problems. 
I get the GUI, but when I select file/open, the application
crashes with the following error: ++++++++++++++++++++

 > /<path>/gimp

process 8788: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up;
failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open
"<path>/packages/dbus10/var/lib/machine-id": No such file or
directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this
issue. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a
backtrace /<path>/bin/gimp: terminated: Aborted

(script-fu:8966): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read():
error +++++++++++++++++++

I can use the same nfs export from a different system and use
gimp just fine without any errors or crashing.  This is the same
OS, same export, same user account.  The conf files in
/etc/dbus-1/ appear to be identical between these two systems. 
The only differences that I can find between the system gimp
works on and the system gimp does not work on are the patch
levels.  They are both RHEL 4 EL x86_64 servers.  The one that
works is at 2.6.9-67.ELsmp, the one that fails is at
2.6.9-34.ELsmp.  Due to software support issues, I cannot simply
update the system that is not working.  I did update the dbus rpm
and rebooted, so that it matched the good system, but that did
not fix the problem. Another strange clue is that I can start the
application when appending the data file, get directly to the
data file without crashing gimp.  For instance, I can run
"/<path>/gimp file1.tif", without any errors.  As soon as I need
to do a file/open, the application and data file close. I am
using the "/<path>/gimp file1.tif" for a work-around at the
moment.  Could anyone help shed some light on this issue of why
Gimp crashes as soon as I select file/open?  What is it that gimp
needs that is causing the crash?

Thanks in advance,
Steve D.
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Since you do not have control over your networked copy of Gimp I 
suggest another route. As I recall the self loading Debian system 
called Knoppix contains a fairly recent copy of Gimp.  You download 
the cdr image, burn it on a disk and then whenever you need to use 
Gimp just pop in the disk and wait for it to load. You can still 
access and save files on your hard disk.  This bypasses the NFS 
facility entirely and gives you a more up to date copy of Gimp. 

If you can't burn an iso image on your system then you can buy a 
Knoppix disk mail order for about $10.  
  
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