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Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2)

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Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2) buralex@gmail.com 21 Jul 23:26
  Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2) Michael Schumacher 21 Jul 23:33
   Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2) buralex@gmail.com 22 Jul 04:28
buralex@gmail.com
2007-07-21 23:26:26 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2)

Hi:
With some trepidation considering the firm refusal of help I had to acknowledge :-(
when installing gimp-2.3.18-i586-setup.exe (from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075) I'm asking for help.

When I attempt to run Gimp 2.3 it barfs and dies immediately. No info is shown in the DOS box.
Kent ( xanthian) on the gimpwin list suggested that problem was likely with GTK+

I had been running Gimp 2.2.x with a GTK+ version (prior to GTK+ 2.10.13) In an attempt to get everything as current as possible: I uninstalled Gimp 2.2.x, GTK+ and Gimp 3.3.18 then installed GTK+ 2.10.13 using gtk+-2.10.13-setup.exe (also from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075) then installed gimp-2.3.18-i586-setup.exe

Running Gimp 2.3.18 still gives same symptoms - DOSbox starts,
Gimp splash screen displayed,
two frame windows opened (main Gimp window and tip-of-the-day but no contents are painted),
two tasks show in TaskManager: Gimp2.3.exe and script-fu.exe and then "Gimp 2.3 must close ..." error dialog is shown

Install for Gimp 2.3.18 gives bug list queries to check. " 436242 depend on GTK+ 2.10.13" looks relevant but as I read it I s/b OK wrt it?

Has anyone a suggestion for what might be wrong and/or further info I can supply? (Unfortunately I don't have the competence to attempt to compile Gimp myself)

FWIW: this is the original thread on Yahoo-gimpwin: gimp-2.3.18-i586-setup.exe after install gives "gimp-2.3.exe has encountered" http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/message/19705

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail

Michael Schumacher
2007-07-21 23:33:03 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2)

buralex@gmail.com wrote:

Has anyone a suggestion for what might be wrong and/or further info I can supply?

You could install Dr. Mingw, a JIT debugger. This will provide more useful output than the useless Windows error messages.

http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/

buralex@gmail.com
2007-07-22 04:28:31 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Gimp 2.3.18 barfs and dies without helpful messages (WinXP-SP2)

Michael Schumacher said on Jul 21, 2007 17:33 -0400 (in part):

Has anyone a suggestion for what might be wrong and/or further info I

can supply?

You could install Dr. Mingw, a JIT debugger. This will provide more useful output than the useless Windows error messages.

http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/

Error message is: gimp-2.3.exe caused an Access Violation at location 004fcfff in module gimp-2.3.exe Reading from location 0000002c

I've put the full debug output from Dr. Mingw at: http://buralex.googlepages.com/gimp_2_3_18_debug_output.txt

does this help?

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail