GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169304
Selecting tools crashes the GIMP
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:49:24 UTC
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 3 1. Start GIMP 2. Select one of the following tools: - Path editor - Color picker - Magnifier - Move - Crop/Resize - Rotate selection/layer - Scale - Shear - Change perspective - Flip layer/selection - Fill color/pattern - Draw ink - Pattern paint - Blur/Sharpen - Dodge/Burn strokes 3. See error message appear in console: The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 34593 error_code 8 request_code 56 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) (script-fu:7059): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error *** I guess the number in "script-fu:7059" represents a line number in the script. Also it varies depending on the tool selected. It does not matter if I select a tool via the toolpanel or via a keyboard shortcut: results are the same. I believe it started happening after updating the GIMP to version 2.2.3. Upgrading to 2.2.4 didn't solve the problem. GIMP related installed packages: - gimp-print-plugin-4.2.7-2 - xsane-gimp-0.92-13 - gimp-2.2.4-0.fc3.1 - gimp-print-4.2.7-2 - gimp-print-utils-4.2.7-2 - gimp-gap-2.0.2-2 - gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-12 - gimp-print-cups-4.2.7-2 - gimp-help-2-0.1.0.7.0.fc3.1
Your X server or your GTK+ library has a bug. This is not a GIMP problem, it works for everyone else.
Changing the theme in Fedora from bluecurve to another fixed it somehow
I have no idea where bluecurve is hosted. There isn't a product in gnome bugzilla for it, is there?
Nope it's the default theme for Fedora Core , but it might be useful for anyone who gets the same error.
BlueCurve is the default theme that RedHat uses (and hence Fedora). If there was a problem with it in general, we would probably be hearing a lot about it. So it's not clear what went wrong on your system.
Perhaps it had something to do with an upgrade of GTK+-1.2.10-33 or gtk2-2.6.4-1.1. I also started to have problems with openoffice (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=144607) but I'm really not sure if that's in any way related.
*** Bug 154867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***