Have never been able to use Pinta for over a minute

[Kenneth Wilhelmsson]

Really want Pinta to work but have never really had the chance to use. It always dies for me, within a minute. The functions I have briefly seen seems to be what I want.

Found this in a log:

ERROR: apport (pid 77691) Thu Oct 8 20:30:25 2020: called for pid 1737, signal 11, core limit 0, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 77691) Thu Oct 8 20:30:25 2020: executable: /usr/libexec/xapps/sn-watcher/xapp-sn-watcher (command line "/usr/libexec/xapps/sn-watcher/xapp-sn-watcher")
ERROR: apport (pid 77691) Thu Oct 8 20:30:25 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 77691) Thu Oct 8 20:30:26 2020: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_libexec_xapps_sn-watcher_xapp-sn-watcher.1000.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 77808) Thu Oct 8 20:32:25 2020: called for pid 77788, signal 6, core limit 0, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 77808) Thu Oct 8 20:32:25 2020: script: /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe, interpreted by /usr/bin/mono-sgen (command line "/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe")
ERROR: apport (pid 77808) Thu Oct 8 20:32:25 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 77808) Thu Oct 8 20:32:27 2020: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_pinta_Pinta.exe.1000.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 77850) Thu Oct 8 20:33:02 2020: called for pid 77818, signal 6, core limit 0, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 77850) Thu Oct 8 20:33:02 2020: script: /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe, interpreted by /usr/bin/mono-sgen (command line "/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe")
ERROR: apport (pid 77850) Thu Oct 8 20:33:02 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 77850) Thu Oct 8 20:33:02 2020: apport: report /var/crash/_usr_lib_pinta_Pinta.exe.1000.crash already exists and unseen, doing nothing to avoid disk usage DoS
ERROR: apport (pid 78051) Thu Oct 8 20:36:46 2020: called for pid 78022, signal 6, core limit 0, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 78051) Thu Oct 8 20:36:46 2020: script: /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe, interpreted by /usr/bin/mono-sgen (command line "/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe")
ERROR: apport (pid 78051) Thu Oct 8 20:36:46 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 78051) Thu Oct 8 20:36:46 2020: apport: report /var/crash/_usr_lib_pinta_Pinta.exe.1000.crash already exists and unseen, doing nothing to avoid disk usage DoS
ERROR: apport (pid 78596) Thu Oct 8 20:50:03 2020: called for pid 78477, signal 6, core limit 0, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 78596) Thu Oct 8 20:50:03 2020: script: /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe, interpreted by /usr/bin/mono-sgen (command line "/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe")
ERROR: apport (pid 78596) Thu Oct 8 20:50:03 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 78596) Thu Oct 8 20:50:03 2020: apport: report /var/crash/_usr_lib_pinta_Pinta.exe.1000.crash already exists and unseen, doing nothing to avoid disk usage DoS

A little isolated, no smb devices or cd/dvd mounted. Disk available.

Guess I have to try something else. Irfanview alternatives have changed since the last time.
.net seems to make no one happy

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Could you try installing the latest Mono version from https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin?
This is likely a similar issue to bug 1786822 and other reported issues

[Kenneth Wilhelmsson (hotkewi)]

Prefer to always use the mono version of the current dist. I think that
should always work? You have to been in the dependency hell? :)
If Pinta needs specific versions, shouldn't that be in dependencies?

Regards,
Kenneth

On 2020-10-08 21:48, Cameron White wrote:
> Could you try installing the latest Mono version from https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin?
> This is likely a similar issue to bug 1786822 and other reported issues
>

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Yes, it is an annoying dependency issue since the newer mono version isn't in the repositories for some distributions, like Ubuntu 18.04. The issues weren't present in older Mono versions too, so it was only an issue we started hearing about after Ubuntu 18.04 came out

If you don't want to upgrade the system's mono version, you could install the snap or flatpak package.