-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-01-31 at 18:24 +0100, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Or you could try tweaking something there, but I don't know what. File 'gimprc' seems to be the main config.
I have no idea what settings i should try to fiddle with. Especially since the Gimp runs fine on my computer, but not on my mother's, and the software installations are identical. The computers differ only with regards to hardware.
Perhaps... try reducing memory used. You can look the variables in "/etc/gimp-2.2/gimprc". These seem interesting: # There is always a tradeoff between memory usage and speed. In most cases, # the GIMP opts for speed over memory. However, if memory is a big issue, # try to enable this setting. Possible values are yes and no. # # (stingy-memory-use no) Try "yes". # (tile-cache-size 128M) Try a lower setting.
If you start gimp from an xterm you might see an error message.
Yes. The message is: hanne@comp:~> gimp Illegal instruction (SIGILL) hanne@comp:~>
It seems a bug in gimp that surfaces with your hardware. I see that gimp has some options: --verbose Show startup messages. -c, --console-messages Display warnings to console instead of a dialog box. --debug-handlers Enable non-fatal debugging signal handlers. --stack-trace-mode <never | query | always> Debugging mode for fatal signals. But I doubt they might help here.
mmap2(NULL, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x411e4000 munmap(0x411e4000, 32768) = 0 open("/home/hanne/.gimp-2.2/gimpswap.5863", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 4 close(4) = 0 unlink("/home/hanne/.gimp-2.2/gimpswap.5863") = 0 --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGILL +++
It seems a problem after opening the local swap file. The partition has no problems, and is local, I suppose? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD4Ad7tTMYHG2NR9URAon1AJ0TC6esvp11J+PIywpaNbmjLwizzACfaknt LKhuax2IleOagIAgeniUhQY= =MpNj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----