Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashed

["Owen" <rcook pcug org au>]

> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Owen <rcook pcug org au> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 May 2013 03:09:35 -0400
> > Pat Brown <pat mysterywriter gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > My Gimp crashed and won't restart. I rebooted the laptop,
> > uninstalled
> > > and reinstalled the program and uninstalled it, rebooted and did a
> > > command line installation. I also ran all my updates.
> > >
> > > I'm running Linux Mint 14 and Gimp 2.8
> >
> >
> >
> > When you started it from the command line, did any messages appear?
> > What were they?
> >
> >
> > When you uninstalled it, did you do a "Complete removal" or only a
> > reinstallation.
> >
> > Suggestion.
> >
> > 1. Do a complete uninstallation
> > 2. do an "updatedb"
> > 3. Search for gimp
> > 4. You will probably need to remove ~/.gimp-2.8
> > 5. There maybe some residual gimp files which could be deleted
> > safely.
> >
> > then
> >
> > 6. Install gimp anew.



> I uninstalled both from the software manager and synaptic package
> manager.
> I also deleted ~/gimp-2.8. Then I did another command line install and
> once
> it was finished -- no error messages -- then ran gimp. This the
> message I
> got
>
> (gimp:6910): Gimp-Base-CRITICAL **: temp_buf_new: assertion `width > 0
> &&
> height > 0' failed
> Segmentation fault


OK, well you should probably reply to the list, rather than me as
there are more eyes and knowledge on the list.

I tried "Gimp-Base-Gimp-Base-CRITICAL **: temp_buf_new: assertion
`width" in google.

here's one answer

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463772


have you ever had a tablet connected? Suggest you read through the
google results and see if anything applies to you.

I certainly can't help any further



-- 
Owen