using Gimp makes the system freeze

[Fabrice PIERROT]

i've tried the same actions on 2 different PCs and the system freeze at the same time
(you can just move the mouse)

the following operations freeze the system :

1 - open a jpg image with gimp

2- detach the menus :
image/mode
filter/artistic

3 - convert the image into indexed mode (64 colors)
4 - re-convert into rvb mode
5 - apply cartoon filter

and the system freeze

Note : compiz is active on the two systems

(sorry for bad english ...)

[Fole (fole)]

Hi Fabrice,
thanks a lot for your bug report. In order to help fixing the bug, could you please add the following information:
- Version of ubuntu you are running and
- Version of gimp where the error occurs.

Additionally, (I am not sure if this is because I am not very experienced with gimp) how do you detach the menus you mentioned?
Thanks for you help.

[Fabrice PIERROT (pierrot-informatique)]

the ubuntu version is 8.04 beta

gimp is 2.4.5

to detach the menu, i use the doted line at the top of the menu

maybe should i report the bug in another section ? (dealing with hardy problems ?)

[Fole (fole)]

It is alright to have hardy bugs reported here! Thanks a lot for the update.
Unfortunately I do not have a hardy installation at the moment. Thus I cannot test it. However, I will mark this as triaged.

[Fole (fole)]

Oops, just figured out that I cannot set status to triaged. However, I cannot confirm since I do not have the same version. Maybe someone else can take a look at this. Thanks and sorry for the mistake.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Why do you want to set this as triaged if you haven't reproduced the bug at all? Triaged means that you confirmed the bug and a developer can start working on this to get it fixed, please do not tend to set status you don't know about, it'll only create confusion instead. you may want to take a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage first, thanks.

Does the bug happens without compiz? can you attach that jpg image to the report? are you running a i386 system or x64 one?

[Fabrice PIERROT (pierrot-informatique)]

i didn't managed to reproduce the bug without compiz

the system used is a i386 one

the image tested is attached (but seems not to be very important to reproduce the bug)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.