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Gimp craashes in LM 19.1
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01-04-2019, 07:32 AM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2019, 07:59 AM by Yumi.)
Upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 last week. Now if I want to open a file in Gimp the whole system crashes. Have to restart completely. Am not sure that it has to do with the new version but it looks likely.
Uninstalled Gimp and removed all directories and files. Installed Gimp 2.8 and 2.10 from repositories but the same thing happens in both versions.
Any advice on what else I could do?
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01-04-2019, 09:23 AM
Being bleeding edge has its drawbacks.

I can only suggest to back off Linux Mint and install a more stable version (19.0, or 18...)(19.1 is barely two weeks old). A userland process such as Gimp should never be able to crash the whole system. This is a major OS bug...
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01-04-2019, 11:12 AM
(01-04-2019, 09:23 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Being bleeding edge has its drawbacks.

I can only suggest to back off Linux Mint and install a more stable version (19.0, or 18...)(19.1 is barely two  weeks old). A userland process such as Gimp should never be able to crash the whole system. This is a major OS bug...

Thanks Ofnuts, you are quite right. I went over to the Linux Mint Forum and there are quite a few users with this problem. Seems to be a problem with the update script, apparently fresh LM installs & Gimp work.
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01-04-2019, 11:25 AM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2019, 11:27 AM by rich2005. Edit Reason: typo )
Just installed a LM 19.1 MATE in a VM

Same as my (k)ubuntu 18.04 Gimp 2.8.22 is the default (comes already installed on the monster mint .iso) Gimp 2.8.22 runs out-of-the-box. No problem that I can find (easily) Thankfully synaptic is the package manager, so easy to keep an eye on what is installed.

For a Gimp 2.10.x presumably the 'buntu ppa was used.
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
Refreshing synaptic and updating Gimp gets me a Gimp 2.10.8. That is working ok as well. At least opens an image and does not crash.

I suspect problems will be uninstalling Gimp 2.10.8 and removing all the upgrades dependencies. You could try

Code:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge

That removes all of Gimp. Re-install Gimp 2.8.22 using synaptic. A quick check, work ok.

Of course might be different using Mint 19.1 with one of the other desktops, xfce for example, I had problems with that in the past.
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