GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 161861
Program crashes when attempting to open existing file.
Last modified: 2008-05-24 18:59:59 UTC
Click file, and then open - program tries to open the 'open' dialogue box, but crashes with the generic 'sorry but this program needs to close' message. The program doesn't crash when creating a new document, or opening an existing document from the 'existing document' list. It also worked OK the first time after installation - but has stopped working since.
Most likely a duplicate of bug #161797.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161797 ***
I don't think this necessarily is a duplicate of bug #161797 . That is about UNC paths, but we don't know the details of this bug.
Most likely this bug is in GTK anyway, not GIMP.
To Justin: We need more information. Does the crash happen whenever you try to open a file? Or just for some files? What is the full path to some file that causes this crash? Where is your GIMP installed?
I'm not sure this is a GTK problem simply because I've uninstalled GIMP 2.4 and installed 2.0.5 in its place, which works with the latest GTK available. The problem only seemed to occur when it tried to activate the 'open document' dialogue box - but not when directly opening recent file from the 'open recent' menu option. I'll reinstall the 2.4 today and let you know the rest.
There is no GIMP 2.4. You presumably mean 2.2? Anyway, GIMP 2.2 uses the GtkFileChooser, while GIMP 2.0 uses the GtkFileSelector.
yeah it was 2.2, sorry for the typo. i'll keep you posted with the reinstall
>>yeah it was 2.2, sorry for the typo. i'll keep you posted with the reinstall\ ...or should I wait until the 2.2.1 becomes available?
OK, just reinstalled 2.2 - once again, the open window works on first boot of the program. I opened a file in 'my pictures' and all is good. Restarted program, went to File>Open, and the program stalls and crashes 5 seconds later. I'm using WinXP professional, and the problem occurs when I'm hooked up to the workplace domain, as well as on my home connection.
Sorry, but you must supply more information for us to be able to solve this... Do you have any "unusual" devices connected to your machine? Do you have any dead drive letter connections? Etc.
Is this still a problem? Please try to reproduce with the latest stable GIMP and GTK+.
No response, closing.