GIMP doesn't start in disco dev

[shemgp]

Hello,

Gimp doesn't start when running in Disco Dingo with error in terminal:

gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gegl_buffer_iterator2_new

I have libbabl:
Package: libbabl-0.1-0
Version: 0.1.62-1

otto's gimp-edge PPA works.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gimp 2.10.8-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-7.8-generic 5.0.0
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 15 00:13:44 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-28 (1263 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: gimp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-02-16 (26 days ago)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Gimp from Disco repo works fine here, recent fresh install of 19.04. Your install is some long time upgrade mishmash

[shemgp (shemgp)]

Works for me now too.

[gunwald (gunwald)]

I have the same issue on an freshly updated Ubuntu. Can somebody enlighten me, how this can be fixed? I found some hints, that there might me an old version of the library libbabl in /usr/local be causing the problem, but does not seem to be the case:

$ ldd /usr/bin/gimp
 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff6b50e000)
 libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5223130000)
 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222ce6000)
 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222c2f000)
 libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222c18000)
 libgimpmath-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpmath-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222c11000)
 libgimpthumb-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpthumb-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222c05000)
 libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222bea000)
 libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222be2000)
 libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222bb1000)
 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222b8b000)
 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222b7b000)
 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222b62000)
 libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222b15000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f5222acf000)
 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f5222a14000)
 libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f522291b000)
 libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 (0x00007f52227fb000)
 libgegl-0.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0 (0x00007f5222549000)
 libgegl-npd-0.4.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-npd-0.4.so (0x00007f522233f000)
 libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5222176000)
 libbabl-0.1.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 (0x00007f5222092000)
 liblcms2.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblcms2.so.2 (0x00007f5222038000)
 libgexiv2.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgexiv2.so.2 (0x00007f5222015000)
 libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f5221ff9000)
 libmypaint-1.3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmypaint-1.3.so.0 (0x00007f5221fe4000)
 libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5221f88000)
 libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5221e67000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f5221d19000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f5221d13000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f5221cf2000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5221b05000)
 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5221aff000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f52219c5000)
 libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f52217bf000)
 libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f522179600...

[Dan Martin (bithooked)]

I also have this issue after an upgrade from 18.10. I don't see how this is NOT a bug. Simply working on a clean install doesn't make this a non-issue. Ubuntu is still expected to cleanly upgrade. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Gimp and the Gimp libraries. It doesn't fix the issue.

The only good news I have is that the Snap Store version does work. I had to uninstall the apt release, and install the snap.

[Mario Di Nicola (warp99)]

I had libgegl-0.4-0 from Otto's PPA that was claiming to be newer than the version in Disco. I used Synaptic to force downgrade to the Disco version, now everything works fine. It could be this or you have an old version of libgegl in /usr/local/bin from another install.

[JohnShep (john-boxrec)]

Thanks fix worked for me

sudo apt purge gimp
sudo apt purge libgegl-0.4-0
sudo apt install gimp

[Miguel Belardinelli Prytoluk (prytolukster)]

Have been updating since 16.04, now on Disco and JohnShep's fix works for me also.
Agree with Dan Martin. "Works on a clean install" is not a good argument. This is a bug.

[Michael Schumacher (schumaml)]

One of the ways to be sure this doesn't happen would be to force a purge of everything that has been installed from third-party repositories, do a clean upgrade, and re-install any pruged packages from the Debian repos. With some big What-Ifs remaining when said packages happen to e.g. not be available.

This could be a bug of, or likely rather a change to, the Ubuntu upgrade policy (as in "people involved in Ubuntu decide how such cases are to be handled in general), but I am not familiar with the current policy at all.

[Michael Schumacher (schumaml)]

Ugh, it's obviously too early... that was meant to read

"[..] do a clean upgrade, and re-install any purged packages from the Ubuntu repos [...]"

and not supposed to imply that packages from Debian should be mixed into an Ubuntu system by default.