Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3120 mails)

[ro b <hd522@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 December 2002 00:31, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> Good day Rob,
>
> > > > Gimp will not start as a regular user(I've tried two seperate
> > > > accounts) Gimp will start as root (superuser)
> > > > Please help as I've no clue how to fix this strangeness
> > >
> > > What is your distribution?
> > >
> > > Open a terminal window and type "gimp" (without the quotes) and
> > > press enter.
> > > Probably you will get some messages.
> > > What does it say?
> > >
> > > Best regards :o)
> > >
> > > Johnny :o)
> >
> > This is what happens :
> > gimp: fatal error: Segmentation fault
> > gimp (pid:7702):  [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed:
> >
> > I should also mention that last night my machine froze which it
> > never does. So after I fsck'ed it everything seems fine cept for
> > gimp.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
>
> I think segmentation faults are somewhat signalling that the program
> is seriously broken.
> Maybe the freeze smashed some gimp binaries somehow.
>
> Was gimp running when the machine froze?
>
> Before uninstalling and reinstalling gimp, try this:
>
> What does the [S]tack trace tell you? (Press 'S')
>
> What happens if you choose [P]roceed? (Press 'P')
>
> Best regards :o)
>
> Johnny :o)
I think you are correct about the freezing messing up gimp.
Reason for freezing solved..it was the processor fan not fanning.So it is now 
replaced.
Stack tells me:
#0    (pid:1605): in g_on_error_stack_trace () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#1    0x401adc70 in g_on_error_query () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#2    0x80b6f1e in gimp_fatal_error ()
#3    0x8110a62 in gimp_sigfatal_handler ()
#4    <signal handler called>
#5    0x4035a990 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6    0x401b2fa3 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#7    0x80d6203 in parse_proc_def ()
#8    0x80d5bc9 in parse_plug_in_def ()
#9    0x80d4e46 in parse_statement ()
#10  0x80d41cb in parse_absolute_gimprc_file ()
#11  0x80d431c in parse gimprc_file ()
#12  0x80138a6c in plug_in_init ()
#13  0x806e5aa in app_init ()
#14  0x806d563 in gimp_init ()
#15  0x801109fa in init ()
#16  0x8016e859 in user_install_verify ()
#17  0x801109c1 in main ()
#18  0x403037ee in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

Hope this tells you more than it does me?
Thank you