GIMP starts as root, not as my user...

[MrsPanic]

I'm having a very strange issue with the GIMP's initial setup and startup when I'm operating as my user account...

It gets all the way through the setup and then when I hit "continue" on the calibration screen to supposedly start the program, it crashes. When I run it as kdesu, it works fine. I've reloaded both the GIMP and glib through YaST, and it still doesn't work.

The command line output is the same thing about 30 times...and it's this:
(gimp:17724): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

I'm at a loss on what to do to fix it or why it works as root and not as me...any ideas?

[MrsPanic]

More info: Here is how the error changes when you try to run it after it completes its "setup" and crashes once...

Kari@linux:~> gimp

(gimp:18710): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gimp:18710): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Segmentation fault

(script-fu:18877): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error



Mr. Panic and I are both at a loss here...any ideas would be much appreciated

[a thing]

Try using KFind, find or locate to locate everything with *gimp* in you home directory. Then delete all of that.

[MrsPanic]

It didn't find anything outside of the /home/Kari/.gimp folder, and I've already deleted that and tried again about 6 or 7 times. Even tried gimprc and gtkrc files out of the root directory and then off of another machine, still no go...

[seagull]

This is due to a crap version of gtk-qt-engine being used. If you're on 9.2 then it's been updated by YaST, if you're on 9.3 then it installs it by default. The crap version is something like gtk-qt-?? cvs???????. Note the CVS in the package name.

To correct the problem install the gtk-qt-engine0.5-9 that comes on the 9.2 disks. If you don't have the 9.2 disks, take it from the SUSE ftp server - go into the 9.2 version tree though.

Incidently, this also solved a problem I was having with firefox after upgrading to 9.3.

Hope it works for you.
Chris

[ihayhurst]

Works for me,
Thanks that one had been driving me slowly nuts
found it here for reference
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ft...5-9.3.i586.rpm

Ian