GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 446917
I just loaded windows GIMP and GTK base. In the past it worked fine, now when invoking, I get
Last modified: 2007-06-13 13:16:38 UTC
Please describe the problem: When trying to invoke GIMP I receive the following: PANGO-ERROR **; file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape); assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)aborting... Steps to reproduce: 1. Not sure, run the Kernel Code first then download the auto windows version of Gimp? 2. 3. Downloaded via: Automated installer (provided by Jernej Simoncic) - choose this if you just want to install GIMP. Note that the user manual is an extra package; make sure that you get it as well. And have a look at the FAQ if you run into any problems. url: http://www.gimp.org/windows/ Actual results: Have to cancel and xx out, cannot get the application to run, open files, etc. Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: Thanks for your assistance.
Um, we'd need a full stacktrace in order to find out what actually went wrong here, as that single assertion isn't very useful. As I'm guessing you're on a Windows machine, which means no bug-buddy and you probably haven't got gdb installed, this is a bit difficult. If you know what you're doing with gdb, then you can get a Windows copy of it from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml. http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces also has some information, but it's Linux and FreeBSD specific. For the moment, I'm closing this bug as INCOMPLETE, please feel free to re-open if you're able to get us a stacktrace.
Given that there are already a dozen duplicates about the same error in Pango shapes.c, I think that it is more appropriate to close this bug as a duplicate of bug #304702. This issue is fixed in Pango 1.12.0. This problem and some solutions are also mentioned in the FAQ: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 304702 ***