Gimp Crashes on Startup with Segmentation Fault

[Andrew Manson (real_ate)]

Binary package hint: gimp

Hi,

I've just installed Natty 64 bit as a fresh install and can't start Gimp. I installed Kubuntu-desktop and am using KDE as my default session type.

Running gimp through gdb I get the following message (before running any backtrace or anything):

Starting program: /usr/bin/gimp
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

(gimp:2799): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
gtk_text_view_set_attributes_from_style (widget=0xc67370, previous_style=<value optimised out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtktextview.c:6380
6380 /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtktextview.c: No such file or directory.
        in /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtktextview.c

I have attached the full backtrace.

If there is any more information required please let me know.

Cheers!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gimp 2.6.11-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 2 14:38:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gimp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Matthias Kretz (mkretz)]

I worked around the problem by changing the GTK_ Appearance - Widget style to Raleigh instead of the preselected oxygen-gtk.

[3ntix (francesco-3ntini)]

The same happen to me. Changing to Raleigh or QtCurve (installed manually) solve the problem.

[Frido Otten (fridi)]

I can confirm this on a fresh 32 bit natty install. The GTK workaround didn't work for me but I found a different workaround:

# mkdir ~/.gimp-2.6
# gimp

voila

[aizquier (aizquier)]

I confirm the same problem running Ubuntu 11.04 32bit on a virtual machine (VirtualBox), using Kubuntu. The workaround reported by Frido did solved the issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.