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and subject line Re: Bug#1145050: gimp: Crashes on startup: "Failed loading
SDL3 library" then segfault
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Package: gimp
Version: 3.2.4-3
Severity: serious
Justification: repeatedly crashes on starup, program is unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I launched GIMP from the command line. Intially I got this
printed:
$ gimp
GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.775: Module
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-save.so' load error:
libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.776: Module
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-load.so' load error:
libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed loading SDL3 library.
Segmentation fault gimp
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I tried the same command a few more times, with the same result. Then
At the suggesion of the Google AI, I tried
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install libopenexr-3-1-30
which didn't help, then
$ sudo apt-get reinstall gimp
* What was the outcome of this action?
No improvement:
$ gimp
Failed loading SDL3 library.
Segmentation fault gimp
$ gimp --verbose --console-messages --debug-handlers
Parsing '/etc/gimp/3.0/gimprc' for configuration data required during early
initialization.
Parsing '/home/jrv/.config/GIMP/3.2/gimprc' for configuration data required
during early initialization.
No language property found.
Failed loading SDL3 library.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
splash screen, then the running program.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.1.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii gimp-data 3.2.4-3
ii gir1.2-gimp-3.0 3.2.4-3
ii graphviz 14.1.2-1+b3
ii libaa1 1.4p5-51.1+b2
ii libappstream5 1.1.2-1+b1
ii libarchive13t64 3.8.9-1
ii libasound2t64 1.2.16.1-1
ii libbabl-0.1-0 1:0.1.128-1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6+b2
ii libc6 2.43-3
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-3+b1
ii libcfitsio10t64 4.6.4-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.17.1-5
ii libfreetype6 2.14.3+dfsg-2
ii libgcc-s1 16.2.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.44.7+dfsg-1
ii libgegl-0.4-0t64 1:0.4.70-4
ii libgexiv2-0.16-4 0.16.2-1
ii libgimp-3.0-0 3.2.4-3
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.88.3-3
ii libgomp1 16.2.0-1
ii libgs10 10.07.1~dfsg-1
ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.52-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 238-7+b2
ii libharfbuzz0b 12.3.2-2+b2
ii libheif1 1.23.1-1
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:3.1.3-4
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.10.8+ds-2+b1
ii libjxl0.11 0.11.2-5
ii liblcms2-2 2.19.1-1
ii liblzma5 5.8.3-1
ii libmng2 2.0.3+dfsg-5+b1
ii libmypaint-1.5-1 1.6.0-4+b2
ii libopenexr-3-4-33 3.4.6+ds-4+b2
ii libopenjp2-7 2.5.4-1.1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.58.0-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.58.0-1
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.58.0-1
ii libpng16-16t64 1.6.58-1
ii libpoppler-glib8t64 25.03.0-11.1+b1
ii librsvg2-2 2.62.1+dfsg-1
ii librsvg2-common 2.62.1+dfsg-1
ii libstdc++6 16.2.0-1
ii libtiff6 4.7.2-1
ii libwebp7 1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii libwebpdemux2 1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii libwebpmux3 1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii libwmf-0.2-7 0.2.14-1
ii libwmflite-0.2-7 0.2.14-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.13-1
ii libxcursor1 1:1.2.3-1+b2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b4
ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-2+b5
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-4+b1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.19-1
ii python3-gi 3.57.1-1
ii python3-gi-cairo 3.57.1-1
ii xdg-utils 1.2.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.2-3
Versions of packages gimp recommends:
ii ghostscript 10.07.1~dfsg-1
Versions of packages gimp suggests:
ii gimp-data-extras 1:2.0.4-0.2
ii gimp-help-en [gimp-help] 3.0.2-3
ii gvfs-backends 1.60.0-2+b1
ii python3 3.14.6-1
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 at 14:19:54 -0400, James Van Zandt wrote:
I don't see any relevant libraries in /usr/local/lib:
I do. This:
libmp3lame.so.0
libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
is breaking libsndfile, presumably by being older than the version of
libmp3lame provided by Debian in /usr/lib that it needs:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.so.1: error: symbol lookup
error: undefined symbol: lame_encode_buffer_interleaved_int (fatal)
and that's breaking SDL3, which breaks sdl2-compat, which breaks GIMP.
(But after fixing that, you might well find that something else in
/usr/local/lib is also interfering.)
As jbicha said, the libraries you have in /usr/local/lib make this
unsupportable.
smcv
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