gimp-2.6 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()

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Binary package hint: gimp

lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
  Installed: 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.6.10-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

I expect to be able to copy images from a jpeg and a png file, and paste them side by side in a new file.

What happened was that upon trying this, gimp froze and eventually crashed. The message left in the terminal upon gimp crashing was: "(script-fu:21769): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error
[1] 21746 segmentation fault (core dumped)"

Upon trying to paste images from two files side by side in a larger image, gimp froze and eventually crashed. I ran gimp from the terminal and got this message: "(script-fu:21769): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error
[1] 21746 segmentation fault (core dumped) "

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gimp 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Jan 31 22:48:39 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gimp-2.6
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
ProcCmdline: gimp ctshirts.jpeg
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=C
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7b20d0 <g_type_check_instance_is_a+128>: testb $0x4,0xe(%edx)
 PC (0x007b20d0) ok
 source "$0x4" ok
 destination "0xe(%edx)" (0x0000093e) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gimp
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gimp-2.6 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #688252, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.