On IRIX 6.2 and 6.5 with GIMP 1.2.0: $ gimp /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Failed to load one of the brushes in the brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-64.gih" /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Warning: Failed to load brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-64.gih" /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Failed to load one of the brushes in the brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-16.gih" /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Warning: Failed to load brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-16.gih" /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Failed to load one of the brushes in the brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-32.gih" /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: Warning: Failed to load brush pipe "/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-32.gih" $ ls -ld /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-64.gih -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 20818 Dec 26 22:32 /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/share/gimp/1.2/brushes/SketchBrush-64.gih The fix is to revert to data/brushes/SketchBrush* from 1.1.32. Any reason the version of these three files in 1.2.0 is different than from 1.1.32? -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)