GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310800
application fails accessing file-open dialogue
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:58:03 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. initiate application 2. choose file-open 3. choose drive (c:) error occurs immediately basic text of error is "Pango-ERROR file shape.c line 75(pango_shape) assertion failed: (glyphs>num_glyphs>0) aborting ...... Stack trace: no stack trace available. Other information:
This has been reported about a hundred times. It seems to have various causes, and various solutions -- changing your GIMP theme from "default" to "small" in the Preferences might work around it for you. Or not. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112401 ***