Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-14 Thread James
Another alternative, if you want to dig further, is to use Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645). Run that, filter on "gimp", and look at what it accesses during startup. Somewhere in that last is a) a file it reads that is corrupt, or b) a file that's missing.

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-14 Thread Bernd Weber
Hi Evan, obviously it's not GIMP that caused the trouble, but windows. When creating a new user account worked but not setting up the GIMP-directory anew there got somethng wrong in the guts of windows. GIMP doesn't store user data at another place. I don't know where windows stores all configurat

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/13/2012 06:54 PM, evan neumann wrote: > Bernd gets a gold star! > > Creating a new User Account worked. But now I am left with the > quandary of whether to migrate all usage to the new account or try > to troubleshoot this user account. I did delete the C:\Documents > and Setting\ [username]\

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread evan neumann
Bernd gets a gold star! Creating a new User Account worked. But now I am left with the quandary of whether to migrate all usage to the new account or try to troubleshoot this user account. I did delete the C:\Documents and Setting\ [username]\.gimp-2.6 folder and all of it's contents several times

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/12/2012 06:00 PM, evan neumann wrote: > I have been using Gimp for a few years now and have become very > dependent on it for my personal project: > orbitingeden.com > > But I aborted a process a few weeks ago by using Task Manager to > end the gimp.exe process. Whe

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Bernd Weber
That was what I have mentioned before: To be more exact: In your user-directory there is a GIMP-directory with your specifed GIMP-Profile You can either rename or delete it. Gimp will try then to create a new one. If that doesn't work, You can create a new user-profile in your windows XP-installat

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread James
I haven't been following this thread too closely, but have you tried renaming the profile directory? I'm guessing something in there is corrupt, causing the hang. On XP it's: C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username_here]\.gimp-2.6 (Could also be .gimp-2.7) I'd rename that (".gimp-2.6-back

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread evan neumann
Hi Bernd, Gimp originally hung up when I accidentally tried to save a VERY large file. After waiting a few minutes I used the Task Manager to end the Gimp process. i tried restarting Gimp immediately and the startup error occurred exactly as it has ever since. I don;t think I loaded any other soft

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Bernd Weber
Hi Evan, though I use GIMP with LINUX, what I really recommend, I will try to help you. As I see, the verbose output shows nothing suspicous. A few questions: 1. Before you killed GIMP in the task manager, what happend? It might be the same problem why GIMP now doesn't start at all. 2. When inst

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Bernd Weber
O.K. I think, before Evan installs GIMP again, he should be sure that the previous installation is cleared totally. I forgot one thing. in his User-Directory a GIMP-directory is created containing his personal GIMP-profile. If a new try also fails, he could create a new user profile on windows and

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:10 +0100, Bernd Weber wrote: > 2. When installing GIMP new, you should edit the registry before. It's > possible that there is a conflict with a registry entry from the > previous instattation. GIMP doesn't use registry (the installer does, but if there was something wro

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-13 Thread Bernd Weber
Hi Evan, though I use GIMP with LINUX, what I really recommend, I will try to help you. As I see, the verbose output shows nothing suspicous. A few questions: 1. Before you killed GIMP in the task manager, what happend? It might be the same problem why GIMP now doesn't start at all. 2. When inst

[Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

2012-01-12 Thread evan neumann
I have been using Gimp for a few years now and have become very dependent on it for my personal project: orbitingeden.com But I aborted a process a few weeks ago by using Task Manager to end the gimp.exe process. When I restarted my computer, Gimp would not restart. I unistalled Gimp, removed the