GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171851
fatal crash when attempting to browse / open file
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:51:03 UTC
Version details: gtk 2.6.4 Distribution/Version: SP2 + latest hotfixes GIMP crashes out on when I attempt to browse my desktop via the Open Image dialog: "Pango-ERROR **; file shape.c; line 75 (pango_shape); assertion failed; (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting..." Followed immediately by a Microsoft C++ Visual Runtime Library runtime error pointed to the GIMP executable (gimp-2.2.exe) which kills the app. Crashes happens each and every time I attempt this. All I am doing is launching GIMP, going to Open Image and browsing the files on my desktop - it seems to happen mid-scroll, even. I've been able to browse other directories without an issue so I'm starting to think there's a particular file extension on my desktop that GIMP isn't happy with. Here's a full list of the extensions that are on my desktop: some folders some jpgs some bmps some pdfs some exes a few zip files one tar.gz file some html files some css files one .mht file a php file some docs some mpegs an mp3 and some shortcuts ...all standard stuff, right?
Kevin, This bug has already been reported, but it is a bug in Pango (the font rendering library that GIMP uses), so you would not have been able to find it by searching for duplicates. It seems to be quite difficult to figure out -- the best temporary workaround I can recommend is to revert back to Gtk+ 2.4.14 until it gets fixed. However one person with this problem was able to work around it by changing to a different Windows theme (see bug #170826). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151068 ***