At 19:45 23.12.99 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: >On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:24:35AM +0100, Jos <josvanr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I just updated from SuSE linux 6.1 to 6.3. Now, when I started >> up gimp from an xterm, the screen became full of these lines: > >I can run gimp from suse 6.3 just fine. You do not happen to overclock >your machine? Or have a faulty harddrive? Or faulty dram? Or some broken >library? > Maybe you 've got a problem while partially updating? Suse 6.3 delivers Gimp 1.1.12 (if I recall correctly) ! Although I'm not absolutely sure, I would expect real bad things happen, mixing Gimp less 1.0.4 with newer Gtk 1.2.x or vice versa. >> After which the system didn't respond anymore: I had to reboot, > >This is almost by definition not a bug in gimp, but in your x-server or >your hardware. > Are there by definition no version problems on Linux? (I'm one of these perveted guys, using Gimp on Windoze most of the time; where dealing with such problems is common) >It is very hard to find out what could be the reason for this unpleasant >behaviour. Maybe you just haven't enough RAM to run gimp, and the kernel >starts to kill processes like mad (especially when you run the patched >suse kernel). It might kill your xserver giving you the impression of a >frozen system when, in fact, it isn't. > Marc, wouldn't it be a good starting point to check version problems first? Maybe for Gtk independendant from Gimp. >> version is printed.) So... does anybody know what I could do now? >> Maybe compile the programme myself? > IHMO you should check for multiple Gimps too, and obviously which one is started, if you type only gimp on xterm. jos@home> where gimp >That's a good start, but certainly not the real reason. At the moment, I'd >suggest faulty hardware or not enough memory. But it could be a broken >xserver binary, or wrong xserver for your gfx card.. > If everything worked fine before updating, I would expect software (configuration) problems, instead of mysterious harware problems. Hans -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert
