GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169527
Installation seems okay but program won't open
Last modified: 2005-03-08 14:45:53 UTC
I installed the GIMP from a CD distributed by the GO-OPEN campaign in South Africa. When trying to open it for the first time it gave the following message: **WARNING (recursed)**. Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" falling back to "Sans 8" aborting... After trying twice to uninstall and reinstall and encountering the same problem I thought I would try to submit a report! I am running the Windows 98 OS.
Change your Windows font to any TrueType font (eg. Arial or Tahoma), or uninstall GTK+ and install it again, but without the GTK-Wimp component this time. This should fix your problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112401 ***