Selected area vanishes on change of tool choice

[Telegram Sam]

Rectangle or Ellipse select tool in "replace the current selection" mode. Outline of selected image area consistently vanishes upon choosing another tool, e.g., Bucket fill, Pencil, Paintbrush, etc. Area, absent outline, proves to remain selected as revealed by paintbrush strokes. Outline is revealed by use of transform tools, e.g., Rotate, Shear Perspective, etc. Transformations will preview, but cancel on attempt to commit. Area does not function as selected using bucket fill whole selection, nor does bucket fill whole selection work upon "select > all" from image menu.

Update to kernel or libraries within past week highly suspect. Erased and reinstalled entire system, before any further configuration, tested gimp as described above, performed normally. Then ran Update Manager, tested again, encountered problem.

Simultaneously arriving bugs reported separately as:
* Processing becomes wedged during image rescale.
* Segmentation fault on closing layers/channels/path/undo dock

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

~$ apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
  Installed: 2.6.11-2ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.6.11-2ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.11-2ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gimp 2.6.11-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 24 08:49:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gimp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Ubuntu 11.10 is EOL, have you updated to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Are you still affected? Thank you for reporting this bug!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gimp (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]