Hi, Franz Zieher <franz.zieher@xxxxxxx> writes: > After compiling gimp succesfully on an SGI box (IRIX 6.5) I get the > following startup error > after the configuration screens. > > GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1580979376 bytes > aborting... > gimp terminated: Abort > > Gimp Version: 1.2.1 > Gtk, glib: Version 1.29 ^^^^ 1.2.9, I assume ?! > Any idea how this can be resolved? Did you compile glib, gtk+ and gimp all using the same compiler/linker? Could you please start gimp using the --verbose command line option and check at which point of the startup procedure it fails. Could you try to reproduce this using a debugger and send a stack trace? Salut, Sven