GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 148678
While starting GIMP an error message from "maze.exe" appears
Last modified: 2007-09-03 12:29:46 UTC
I installed GIMP 2.0.3 at WinXP. While starting GIMP the first time the message "Es befindet sich kein Datenträger im Laufwerk. Legen Sie einen Datenträger in Laufwerk \Device\Harddisk3\DR9 ein" with the title "maze.exe - Kein Datenträger" and the Buttons "Abbrechen" "Wiederholen" "Weiter"(without quotes)appeared. I pressed "Abbrechen" and the same Message appeared another 3-5 times. It was while GIMP was installing the plugins. It appeared again twice, everytime I started Gimp, while the Plugins were initialized. It does not matter if I press "Abbrechen" or "weiter". But if I press "Wiederholen", the message appears again and again...
AFAIK this is a known problem of the pspi plug-in that is shipped with GIMP for Win32. Since that plug-in is not part of the official GIMP distribution, there is nothing we can do about it. Please try to remove the pspi plug-in from your installation and report back if that helps.
I'm sory, but I can't find this plug-in. Is there anyone who can say me how I can find the Plugin?
It should be called pspi.exe. I might however be completely wrong here. After all your report seems to indicate that the problem is with maze.exe.
Sadly I couldn't find the plugin pspi.exe I did some tests now: I cancelled all plug-ins from the directory ..\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins And the error was vanished. Then I added the Plug-ins one by one and now, some hours later, I have a list of the plug-ins which cause following Message: +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | GIMP Start: gimp-2.0.exe - Kein Datenträger [X]| +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Es befindet sich kein Datenträger im Laufwerk. Legen Sie einen | | Datenträger in Laufwerk \Device\Harddisk3\DR9 ein | | +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ | | | Abbrechen | |Wiederholen| | Weiter | | | +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ The plugins are: bmp CEL csource dicom fits gbr gfli gicon gif gifload gih gtm gz header hrz jpeg maze papertile pat pcx pix png pnm postscript psd psd_save psp sgi svg tga tiff wmf xbm xpm xwd You see, there are some important plug-ins in the list. A particular position have the files "maze" and "papertile", which cause an additional error, if they are new in the plug-in folder.
This can only be an issue with how the binaries were built. This is not in our realm though, we just provide the source code. Reassigning to component installer.
This is a problem that appears when a card rwader is attached to the system. Pretty much any software can trigger it (and you should never try to add such things to win32 servers :( ), but I haven't seen any explanation of exactly what triggers it. Some users have reported that recent drivers for their reader fixes this, so this might not be a problem in GIMP or the plug-ins. The smyptoms seem to indicate that all drives attached to a computer are queried when plug-ins are loaded, but there isn't anything in the plug-ins that does this, at least as far as I understand the code.
You are right! I have the "USB 6 in 1 Card R/W" and when I unplug it, the error message does not anymore appear. It isn't even neccessary to restart my Computer. As soon as I unplug the card reader, I can start gimp without errors. The only thing to do now, were to repress this messages somehow. Is this possible? Either alter the main program or the several plug-ins. I havn't got a clue about programming.
There is no way this could be fixed in GIMP or in the plug-ins. It's the OS or the card reader driver that needs to be fixed. Closing as NOTGNOME.
*** Bug 157302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 159902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 162356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 163831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 168480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is actually a duplicate of bug #170948. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170948 ***
You may well have marked this resolved, but I'm certain that it can be fixed within GIMP. I recently installed GIMP 2.2.17 and I've been getting the following "Windows - No Disk" error message: Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c which is the same error message number (c0000013) I received in a program I wrote. My program looks through all the disk devices on a system and produced this error message anytime it attempted to read from my USB card reader. I finally solved this problem by the following means: SetErrorMode_(#SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) Coded to scan through the drives SetErrorMode_(#Null) which eliminated the display of the error message and skipped the empty drives. I do hope you will find this of use to you and that you will implement the fix to improver the user experience with this fine _FREE_ cross platform graphics editor. Best Regards, Magus.
(In reply to comment #15) > You may well have marked this resolved, but I'm certain that it can be fixed > within GIMP. This bug report has been marked as a duplicate of bug #170948, as you can see in the summary box and in comment #14 (just before yours). If you want to make suggestions, please add them to bug #170948, not here. This would also have the advantage that if the bug can fixed in gtk+, then all applications can benefit from it, not just GIMP.