On Mon October 29 2007 06:56:15 am Gavin Chester wrote: <snip> > Did a search on my drive for any gimpshop components, found nothing > telling, so I upgraded to gimp-unstable just for the hell of it. Same > thing. Downgraded to gimp 2.2.13 from suse repos and same thing. > > I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp > working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Hi Gavin, I just went through a similar experience with the gimp on 10.2: After some updates a while back, gnome started spitting out more than just the typical fonts/paths errors in .xsession-errors, nautilus occassionally started racing (requiring a kill/restart) and Firefox would not resize unless first 'maximized'... so... I ventured into 'Software Management' and found several gnome bits installed with newer versions available... one of them being the gimp, which of course stopped working after the update. After an 'rpm -qa | grep gimp' it appeared I had two versions installed... the original and the newer. (I thought "WTF?!") I ran an 'rpm -e (then ldconfig and SuSEconfig) to remove the original and then it would launch... but not in a usable state (unrecognized file formats) and other things on my gnome desktop were broken... two error messages on login, lost background image, icons missing in my (customized) panels and so on. The bottom line is I had to uninstall everything gimp related and then install only the newer version. While I was at it, I performed a second iteration of updating everthing gnome on my system that the Software Management module would allow without complaining. After doing this, all the above described problems disappeared and the newer version of the gimp that I'm running, gimp24-2.4.0-0.pm.2, is working great... well worth the effort IMHO. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
