Do you also get crashes if you use any other tool like the pencil or brush?
This might be a dublicate of the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1021517 Can you check your XorgLog.txt or XorgLogOld.txt in /var/log/ and compare it to the one in the link? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gimp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021885 Title: Gimp crashes at selection and closes X session Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Each time I try to select a region (either rectangular or ellipsoidal), Gimp crashes at the first clic and closes X session. Here is an extract of the .xsession-errors file : gimp-2.6: Fatal IO error 11 (Ressource temporairement non disponible) on X server :0.0. Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/share/touchpad-indicator/listenkbd.py", line 156, in run self.record_dpy.record_enable_context(self.ctx, self.key_press) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Xlib/ext/record.py", line 238, in enable_context context = context) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Xlib/ext/record.py", line 215, in __init__ apply(rq.ReplyRequest.__init__, (self, ) + args, keys) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Xlib/protocol/rq.py", line 1428, in __init__ self.reply() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Xlib/protocol/rq.py", line 1440, in reply self._display.send_and_recv(request = self._serial) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 544, in send_and_recv raise self.socket_error ConnectionClosedError: Display connection closed by server This may be a bug with the nvidia driver. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gimp 2.6.12-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jul 6 21:12:38 2012 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gimp UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-12 (24 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1021885/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
