While trying to run gimp 1.2.0 on Solaris 7/SPARC: $ gimp Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Bears: can't happen? Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Bgold: can't happen? Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Blues: can't happen? ... Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Volcano: can't happen? Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Warm_Colors: can't happen? Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Web: can't happen? /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: Unable to start Plug-In "dbbrowser" (/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/dbbrowser) /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: Unable to start Plug-In "script-fu" (/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/script-fu) /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: ... /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: Unable to start Plug-In "xpm" (/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/xpm) /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: Unable to start Plug-In "xwd" (/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/xwd) /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/bin/gimp: pipe() failed: Unable to start Plug-In "zealouscrop" (/opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/zealouscrop) Gimp-WARNING **: module load error: /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_gtk.so: ld.so.1: internal: malloc failed Gimp-WARNING **: module load error: /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_triangle.so: ld.so.1: internal: malloc failed Gimp-WARNING **: module load error: /opt/TWWfsw/gimp12/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_water.so: ld.so.1: internal: malloc failed This works without a hitch on Solaris 8/SPARC. Well, turns out the default number of file descriptors on Solaris 8/SPARC is 256. On Solaris 7/SPARC, it's 64 (look at output of 'limit' command). Modifying this with: $ ulimit -n 256 solved the problem. To bump the number of file descriptors system wide, add the following to /etc/system: * set soft limit on file descriptors set rlim_fd_cur = 256 This problem also exists on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6/SPARC. -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
