gimps crashes in file open dialog

[Xolotl Loki]

Binary package hint: gimp

Gimp crashes every time I try to open a file on Karmic. I installed gimp-dbg, so hopefully ubuntu-bug was able to get good data from the backtrace. If not, I can add a manual backtrace and core.

I'm not entirely sure when this started, since I seldom need to run gimp. I know I have run gimp successfully after upgrading Jaunty to Karmic.

What's interesting is that the problem only appears after running gimp once. If I create a new user, ssh -Y newuser@localhost, then I can run gimp fine, and the file open dialog works normally. However, if I run gimp again, it crashes.

I then tried the same experiment again, and created a new user. This time I repeatedly rsync'd the new user's home directory to /attic: before logging in, after logging in, after running gimp successfully, and after it crashed. I noticed the creation of ~/.gimp-2.6, ~/.thumbnails, etc. So I decided to remove ~/.gimp-2.6, and was able to run gimp again. However, after one successful run, gimp always crashed on the second run, without even having to <ctrl>-O.

So I tried the same thing with my normal user. Removing ~/.gimp-2.6 allows gimp to run normally once, but crashes on invocation every subsequent attempt, unless I keep removing the newly created ~/.gimp-2.6. Notice that this behavior is different; before removing ~/.gimp-2.6, I was able to start gimp, and it did not crash until I tried to open a file. After removing it once, I must remove it before running gimp, or else I don't even get the chance to try to open files.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 3 14:57:39 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gimp 2.6.7-1ubuntu1.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: gimp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Xolotl Loki (xoloki)]

It doesn't look like ubuntu-bug grabbed a backtrace or a core, so here they are:

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00007f563b0ecfea in graphite_PangoGlyphString () from /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/graphite/pango-graphite.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f563b0ecfea in graphite_PangoGlyphString () from /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/graphite/pango-graphite.so
#1 0x00007f5645b89d3a in pango_shape () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#2 0x00007f5645b7d4bb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#3 0x00007f5645b7de31 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#4 0x00007f5645b7f955 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#5 0x00007f5645b808fc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#6 0x00007f5645b8112e in pango_layout_get_size () from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#7 0x00007f5646c58bfe in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007f5646c5e55d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00007f56444435ae in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007f564445829c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007f5644459d39 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00007f564445a0a4 in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00007f5646cd3d28 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x0000000000594fe9 in gimp_thumb_box_new (context=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/widgets/gimpthumbbox.c:443
#15 0x0000000000568442 in gimp_file_dialog_add_preview (gimp=<value optimized out>, action=53105632, title=0x71fbea "Open Image",
    role=0x32b3700 "gimp-file-open", stock_id=0x716307 "gtk-open", help_id=0x721b14 "gimp-file-open")
    at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/widgets/gimpfiledialog.c:632
#16 gimp_file_dialog_new (gimp=<value optimized out>, action=53105632, title=0x71fbea "Open Image", role=0x32b3700 "gimp-file-open",
    stock_id=0x716307 "gtk-open", help_id=0x721b14 "gimp-file-open") at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/widgets/gimpfiledialog.c:379
#17 0x000000000049b02d in file_open_dialog_new (gimp=0x1aaa070) at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/dialogs/file-open-dialog.c:74
#18 0x0000000000556aa5 in gimp_dialog_factory_dialog_new_internal (factory=0x1f16d90, screen=<value optimized out>, context=0x1c50150,
    identifier=0x7221a0 "gimp-file-open-dialog", view_size=0, return_existing=0, present=0)
    at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/widgets/gimpdialogfactory.c:471
#19 0x0000000000557221 in gimp_dialog_factory_dialog_new (factory=0x1f16d90, screen=0x1a5ecf0, identifier=0x7221a0 "gimp-file-open-dialog",
    view_size=-1, present=0) at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/widgets/gimpdialogfactory.c:595
#20 0x0000000000482905 in file_open_dialog_show (gimp=0x1aaa070, parent=0x2746170, title=<value optimized out>, image=0x0, uri=0x0,
    open_as_layers=0) at /build/buildd/gimp-2.6.7/./app/actions/file-commands.c:473
#21 0x00007f56444435ae in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00007f5644458983 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 0x00007f5644459d39 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 0x00007f564445a283 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 0x0...

[Xolotl Loki (xoloki)]

I thought about the backtrace, and wondered if some weird font was causing issues. So I removed some of the more exotic ttf fonts, and the problem went away. Notice how the font system complained until I removed the last two fonts, which makes me think this is a pango bug relating to not having a CIDSupplement for a particular font.

I'm going to leave the bug open, since pango shouldn't crash no matter what font I have installed, but it should probably be reclassified.

xoloki@xocotl:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get remove ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-kacst ttf-lao ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sil-andika ttf-sil-doulos ttf-unfonts-core ttf-wqy-zenhei
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-kacst ttf-lao ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sil-andika ttf-sil-doulos
  ttf-unfonts-core ttf-wqy-zenhei tuxtype
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 54.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 450743 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ttf-devanagari-fonts ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-devanagari-fonts
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei-CNS, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
Removing ttf-kacst ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-kacst
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei-CNS, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
Removing ttf-lao ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lao
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei-CNS, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
Removing ttf-punjabi-fonts ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-punjabi-fonts
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei-CNS, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenHei, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
Removing ttf-sazanami-gothic ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/sazanami
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regula...

[Dmitry Diskin (diskin)]

ttf-sil-andika ttf-sil-doulos crashed nautilus, metacity on 10.04. I installed qimo-games, and the fonts were installed with it, and after that I was unable to sign in to gnome or xfce. Strace nautilus showed that the last file open before segfault was ttf-sil-doulos, so I removed both and things restored.

[Ted (tedks)]

GIMP doesn't crash for me after installing ttf-sil-doulos. Could you post the steps to generate a crash?

[Xolotl Loki (xoloki)]

I filed the bug against Karmic, not Lucid. I just tried to reproduce it on Lucid, and now gimp runs fine with ttf-sil-doulos/ttf-sazanami-gothic installed. Presumably whatever bug I was seeing was fixed upstream in pango between Karmic and Lucid.

I'm running xubuntu, so I can't test Dmitri's report.

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