Gimp freezes on startup

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0x001A4 · Post by **0x001A4** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:12 pm

When I try to start up Gimp as a regular user it freezes on the Splash screen while it says "Looking for data files". This happend once before, so I recompiled Gimp and the next time I restarted my computer it worked again. But after using Gimp once, the next time I tried to run it, it froze at the same spot. I tried running it from the terminal to get some sort of debug output, but nothing. So I tried to run it as root and it worked. I havent had a chance to run it again as root, so I dont know if its going to give me the same error yet. But has anyone else experienced this?

genb0y · Post by **genb0y** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:24 am

Oh my... I have the same problem.

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:50 am

I have the same problem. It says it wants to load "modules" and then freezes.

Any hints?

xnij2 · Post by **xnij2** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:06 pm

Same here. I've had this problem for a week or so. It crashed when loading the modules (something about mutex lock making it crash). I downgraded to the previous ebuild version and deleted the config directory, and now it starts (if I run it from a shell). I think the modules are still stuffed as when I try to save/export it freezes. Not sure where to go from here.

Could it be one of the USE flags? (media-gfx/gimp-2.3.13 USE="aalib alsa gnome jpeg lcms mmx mng pdf png python sse svg tiff wmf (-altivec) -debug -doc -gtkhtml -smp")

macawgumbo · Post by **macawgumbo** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:00 am

Take ALSA out of the USE Flags to get the development builds to run. [2.3.13 and 2.3.14]. After having done this I was able to start and use GIMP except when it came to opening or saving files and then it freezes. So I downgraded to the stable version [2.2.12] and masked the dev builds (~x86 here). With this I get the module loading freeze again on startup, though the initial configuration ran and then it closed. Running as root gets me a tad farther in the load process, but it still won't get out of the splash screen. Not sure which is worse: creating pretty pictures and not being able to save and then have it freeze or to not be able to use at all. Any suggestions on a fix would be greatly appreciated. Would also like to use the 2.3.14 build to get my system completely updated on the ~x86 architecture.

xnij2 · Post by **xnij2** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:21 am

Hmm, strange...

I recompiled gimp with the smp flag and now things seem to be working. Not going to touch it as I need to get some work done here

xnij2 · Post by **xnij2** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:48 am

...and now it's not working again. Every time I try to save a jpg the file chooser stops responding. All other dialogs still respond.

Grr.

macawgumbo · Post by **macawgumbo** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:20 pm

Did you try open? That doesn't work either.

0x001A4 · Post by **0x001A4** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:52 pm

Well it seems like this happens to me when I open Gimp for the second time. Since installing it for the first time, I opened it once as regular user and it worked fine. I opened it again, and it froze on the Looking for data files screen. I opened it once as root and it worked fine. I opened it again as root and it froze on the same screen.

Maybe its some sort of config file thats being written to when you first run gimp as a specific user (possibly one that saves your settings) and then when you try to open gimp again its having trouble with that file.. Just an idea...

Anyone else have any luck with this?

ni1s · Post by **ni1s** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:55 pm

What happens if you $ rm -Rf ~/.gimp

macawgumbo · Post by **macawgumbo** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:27 am

that doesn't help. I have run it on all .gimp* directories in home and root.

0x001A4 · Post by **0x001A4** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:52 am

ni1s wrote:What happens if you $ rm -Rf ~/.gimp

Well this is making me suspect that my theory is right. ~/.gimp isnt a folder but ~/.gimp-2.3 is and when I cleared that out, it was like Gimp was starting out fresh and it started fine. I guess its just a matter of narrowing down which file is causing this.

0x001A4 · Post by **0x001A4** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:06 am

Well it seems like here when I remove the toolrc file, Gimp loads up fine. Can someone else who has been having this problem try, and see what happens? I just did

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$ rm ~/.gimp-2.3/toolrc

macawgumbo · Post by **macawgumbo** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:08 am

I resolved this and many other issues I was having by downgrading from ~x86 to x86. [unstable to stable architecture]. Gimp stable now works fine for me in all aspects. I am not sure what fixed it, but vmware-server and a few other packages seem to be more reliable (or stable, hmm... maybe that is why they call it the stable arch).

0x001A4 · Post by **0x001A4** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:22 am

macawgumbo wrote:I resolved this and many other issues I was having by downgrading from ~x86 to x86. [unstable to stable architecture]. Gimp stable now works fine for me in all aspects. I am not sure what fixed it, but vmware-server and a few other packages seem to be more reliable (or stable, hmm... maybe that is why they call it the stable arch).

Yeah probably lol. But stable takes all the fun out of it.. lol.

Anyways, I've also found that once I removed that toolrc file I've been able to start gimp through the terminal with no problems and not having to remove the file every time. I still cant start it through the KMenu though, which I dont really understand. I know that the KMenu uses gimp-remote-2.3 as the command to start gimp, but gimp-remote-2.3 works fine through the terminal as well.

xnij2 · Post by **xnij2** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:54 am

0x001A4 wrote:Well it seems like here when I remove the toolrc file, Gimp loads up fine. Can someone else who has been having this problem try, and see what happens? I just did
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$ rm ~/.gimp-2.3/toolrc

Tried removing toolrc, which did not fix my problem. Also removed pluginrc -- no change.

Gimp starts every time for me (after adding the smp USE flag), but every time I try to export/save as a jpg it just freezes the file chooser dialog. It worked for a short time after rm-ing the .gimp-2.3 directory and rebooting.