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. > 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... Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
