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
if you uninistallx sane and xsane, does the gimp not hang?
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
Reporter confirms this problem is fixed in RH7.1.