Bug 24962

Summary:	gimp hangs on startup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Robert M. Riches Jr. <rm.riches>
Component:	gimp	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.0
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Description Robert M. Riches Jr. 2001-01-25 20:52:29 UTC

Gimp hangs on startup.  X event processing is even hung, because
it won't refresh the startup window when occluded and then
exposed.  The startup window says it is loading the yinyang plug-in.
An strace says it is waiting for a child:

<... wait4 resumed> [WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGRT_16], WNOHANG,
NULL) = 365

A 'ps augxw' says there's an xsane process apparently started by
gimp.  However, manually running xsane works fine.

Thanks.

Robert Riches
richesr1

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-01-25 20:54:32 UTC

if you uninistallx sane and xsane, does the gimp not hang?

Comment 2 Robert M. Riches Jr. 2001-01-25 21:40:09 UTC

Yes, if I uninstall (rpm --erase) all the sane and xsane packages, gimp comes up
without hanging.  That would seem to imply that this report should be
reclassified
to sane/xsane, unless the problem is in the method by which gimp calls xsane.

(I'll need to reinstall sane/xsane, because I need the scanner more than I need
gimp at the moment, but I'll look for a way to locally disable gimp from trying
to
call xsane for now.)

Thanks.

Robert Riches
richesr1

Comment 3 Robert M. Riches Jr. 2001-09-17 17:37:53 UTC

Reporter confirms this problem is fixed in RH7.1.