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Bug 393800 - GIMP fails to load: 'Looking for Data Files: Modules'
GIMP fails to load: 'Looking for Data Files: Modules'
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154968
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.2.x
Other Windows
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-07 05:03 UTC by Yousef Reda
Modified: 2008-01-15 13:23 UTC
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Description Yousef Reda 2007-01-07 05:03:14 UTC 
Running Windows XP Professional SP 2 with 512 MB ram, 1.75 ghz AMD Sempron... if that matters.

Whenever I attempt to load GIMP, it crashes in the GIMP Startup screen with the pencils and etc. It displays:

Loading for Data Files

Modules

And the progress bar stops. Task Manager shows GIMP consuming 99% CPU, and it shows.

I've tried it with GTK+ 2.10.6-1, 2.6.10-20050823, and this win32-2.8.10-rc1 thing (reading off my downloads, heh). I've tried it with and without Windows native look (the non-windows look looks better :P). Nothing.

If it is of any concern, I also have installed on my computer GIMPshop (based on 2.2.4) and Inkscape (some version or another, possibly the latest). GIMPshop crashes on the same spot - loading modules. Inkscape simply refuses to load and exhibits the same CPU-draining symptoms as GIMP and GIMPshop.

Is it GTK+? I installed these programs on my Ubuntu 6.10 just fine.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2007-01-08 11:00:42 UTC 
Just the usual slow font loading, as described in the FAQ (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html)? Did you try waiting a few minutes?
Comment 2 Yousef Reda 2007-01-11 05:35:09 UTC 
Heh, how embarrassing. I did read that FAQ, and I simply skipped over that part because I did not think it applied to me (do the fonts load under "Module?" if so, then I'm clearly mistaken).

I know that this might not be your particular field, but are you aware of Inkscape using this same file as well? I can't seem to understand why Inkscape won't run either.

When I get on my Windows partition, I'll try it out and report the results...
Comment 3 Yousef Reda 2007-01-13 04:28:29 UTC 
Alright, after (literally) 24 hours of idle time, I returned to my PC to find GIMP open. However, when selecting the Layers window, the program became unusably slow. I could drag the main window fine up until I started dragging the Layers window.

It seems like this is a unique, one of a kind, rare situation that's probably not a bug. I can run GIMP just fine from Linux and I really don't like Windows all that much anyway, so this is no big deal. Maybe it should just be left as it is. And sorry this is only my, what, first time on Bugzilla, heh, I don't know what to do with this thing so that it's not.. an issue anymore.

Thanks,
Y. Reda
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2007-04-24 09:54:28 UTC 
Let's close this as a duplicate then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154968 ***