Tried the latest development gimp, 2.3.9. Had a problem with Xsane. It reecognized Xsane, and when I selected it gave me the "accept" page. I said yes and then Xsane blew up. (In the process of getting a runnable 2.3.9 I had to delete som3 glibs and insatll newer ones.)
So I downloaded 2.2.12 into its own directory, and compiled it.

It gives me the inital splash sreen but then errors, such as the following:

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GimpConfigInterface'

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion `g_type_parent (interface_type) == G_TYPE_INTERFACE' failed

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GimpConfigInterface'

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion `g_type_parent (interface_type) == G_TYPE_INTERFACE' failed

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GimpParamRGB'

(gimp:12480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_internal: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_PARAM (param_type) && param_type != G_TYPE_PARAM' failed Segmentation fault
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So back to the drawing board. I can of course wipe out everything and start all over. But I am stilll curious about the Xsane thing. What would cause it to start and then abend? It hasn't been changed.

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:21, John R. Culleton wrote:

Tried the latest development gimp, 2.3.9. Had a problem with Xsane. It reecognized Xsane, and when I selected it gave me the "accept" page. I said yes and then Xsane blew up. (In the process of getting a runnable 2.3.9 I had to delete som3 glibs and insatll newer ones.)
So I downloaded 2.2.12 into its own directory, and compiled it.

Don't know the disease but I found the cures. first I wiped out everything in /usr/local/share/gimp. I also wiped out the gimpish files in my home directory. 2.2.12 still didn't want to play nicely so I recompiled 2.3.9. The xsane problem may have been related to cross-partition problems so I just copied it to the plug-in directory instead of linking it. Now all I have to do is correct the persistent problems with PostScript output. It still creates offsets, horizontal and vertical, by default. This requires minor surgery on the source.