The Gimp
Rob Hurle
rob1940 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 12:44:48 UTC 2009
Due to some meteorological disasters I've had to replace my 6.1
FreeBSD system and I've installed 7.2 on the refurbished i386
computer:
freebsd [22:03] ~>uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0:
Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009
My desktop is KDE Version 4.2.2 (not yet sure that this is an
improvement over the previous version). I'm starting to re-install
software using portupgrade (portinstall). I've a few problems with
that, but I'll leave that to another post. The immediate problem is
that I've used portinstall to install gimp (picture processing
software) which I was happily using on the previous version. It
installs OK (after a fearful amount of time) but when I start it, I
get a segmentation fault:
freebsd [22:07] ~>gimp &
[1] 3696
freebsd [22:09] ~>
[1] Segmentation fault gimp
freebsd [22:09] ~>
If I run as root, there is no problem:
freebsd [22:09] ~>sudo gimp &
[1] 3700
freebsd [22:10] ~>
[1] + Suspended (tty output) sudo gimp
freebsd [22:10] ~>fg
sudo gimp
Password:
freebsd [22:11] ~>
It starts OK and I can use it fine. The config file ".gimp-2.6" is
saved in root's home directory. I've tried RTFM, but there is no
information on this problem. Maybe it's due to some library having
the wrong permissions and I should search the system for files with
544 permissions or something. Does anyone have a clue as to what's
going on, or should I report a bug? Thanks heaps.
Rob Hurle
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Rob Hurle
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU
e-mail: rob1940 at gmail.com
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