Gimp Crashes On Startup

[BrassRaptor]

@ Rich, I'm unsure of if I have a third-party clipboard installed, but I will be giving Gimp Portable a go!

@ Ofnuts, I do often keep text in my clipboard as I do a lot of creative writing/typing throughout the day. I tried to copy a few small images to my clipboard and then opened Gimp with no change.

Before I tried anything else, I installed Gimp Portable and it launched without a hitch! It seems to be running smoothly and doing what I need it to do (opening PSDs with groups/folders as I primarily use Photoshop Elements which can't do these things).

Thank you both so much for your help and time! I truly appreciate it. I'll test these other suggestions, and if nothing seems to work, at least we know Gimp Portable does. :]

[Geoff]

(08-13-2017, 09:57 PM)BrassRaptor Wrote: @ Rich, I'm unsure of if I have a third-party clipboard installed, but I will be giving Gimp Portable a go!

@ Ofnuts, I do often keep text in my clipboard as I do a lot of creative writing/typing throughout the day. I tried to copy a few small images to my clipboard and then opened Gimp with no change.

Before I tried anything else, I installed Gimp Portable and it launched without a hitch! It seems to be running smoothly and doing what I need it to do (opening PSDs with groups/folders as I primarily use Photoshop Elements which can't do these things).

Thank you both so much for your help and time! I truly appreciate it. I'll test these other suggestions, and if nothing seems to work, at least we know Gimp Portable does. :]

Had the exact same problem with Gimp not starting in windows 10. Same error message. 
Solved it by starting Gimp without fonts, then quitting and re-started normally -- For me all fixed

To start with no fonts
1. use the file browser to go to the gimp installation at C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin
2. in the search bar type     cmd       and a terminal will open up
3. type            gimp-2.8.exe -f
4. press enter

this starts gimp without fonts. I closed gimp and restarted gimp again from the startup icon and all is well. Hope this solves the problem for others

[luvr]

I'm trying to run GIMP 2.10 on Windows 10, but it keeps crashing on startup.
The strange thing is, that its startup window doesn't display the messages that it is trying to show me as text, but as unknown character boxes:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xX1nA7...ifgdSrCjgb

I tried just about everything that I could imagine (and that I found documented online), but nothing helped.

Then, I noticed something weird about the LibreOffice startup window: It displays its messages in a particularly unattractive fixed-width font:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wcJa8o...f1dZOR0dHQ

I had installed LibreOffice right after GIMP, so I thought that, perhaps, LibreOffice and GIMP don't like one another under Windows, and I decided to uninstall LibreOffice.
Lo and behold! That makes GIMP work!

[luvr]

I reported the bug on the bug tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1726

[rich2005]

Interesting when you delve into it.

First a recommendation / possibility - The LibreOffice portable from portableapps.com I monitored an installation (only) 14421 files & 25 reg entries, a few of those files are in windows/temp and some log entries. All the rest isolated in the LOportable folder.

In Windows it seems to work ok with Gimp 2.10.2 - this in a Win10 VM screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/0loa01q.jpg

Looking at the font problem. The LOportable contains only one font opens__.ttf

Put that into the Gimp fonts path and fails. Also in Kfontview and Fontforge. https://i.imgur.com/6zKJqGn.jpg (edit: oops no shot from kfontview)

Not surprising since it contains nothing. https://i.imgur.com/XTlLUDr.jpg I suppose the regular LO installer puts this into Windows fonts and breaks Gimp.

I generally use linux and the LO 6.04 appimage. That contains many fonts which are only temporary but includes opens__.ttf looks like this https://i.imgur.com/A5UDiez.jpg So the font is OpenSymbol.

Now my linux kubuntu 16.04 installation already contains one of those and it is in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice AFAIK openoffice was never installed, must have come with 'buntu. What a maze

[rich2005]

After all that, using a Win10 64 bit VM and clean installations both of them default, I can not reproduce the problem. Gimp 2.10.2 starts ok. Finds the new fonts after LO installation ok. Does not crash.

Installation LO then Gimp also works without any problems.

Perhaps it is an issue with a Dutch language installation. Do not know. I still think a LOportable might be a good alternative.

[luvr]

Solved!

The problem was caused by the fonts that got installed by LibreOffice.
I removed the offending font files, and now GIMP works fine (as does LibreOffice).

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issu...ote_256010