[OpenIndiana-discuss] Software issues (GIMP, Audacity)

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 19.02.25 um 07:34 schrieb russell:
> Good Morning Garrett,
>
> I have been using GIMP to perform screenshots and save the images as
> JPG, PNG, etc but never tried to load a file recently until you
> mentioned the problem. Checking I have the same results.
>
> For GIMP I get the following errors :-
>
> *Plug-in crashed: "file-jpeg"
> (/usr/lib/amd64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-jpeg/file-jpeg) The dying
> plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save
> your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.*
>
> *Opening '/home/russell/Documents/Pictures/Chocolate_Coronavirus.jpg'
> failed: Procedure 'file-jpeg-load' returned no return values *
>
> In a similar vein, when using VirtualBox v7.1.4 when I attempt to run
> a VB as me via VirtualBox Manager or headless mode it terminates with
> a signal 11. The error generated by VirtualBox Manager is below
>
> The virtual machine 'win7-ts4' has terminated unexpectedly during
> startup because of signal 11.
>
> Result Code:
>
>
>
> NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
>
> Component:
>
>
>
> MachineWrap
>
> Interface:
>
>
>
> IMachine {e36a5081-a82a-40bd-9e4e-42a44d6ce50f}
>
> However, if I use su to execute VirtualBox Manager as root and start a
> VB I created for root it works perfectly. I have checked the VBox
> settings (CPU, Memory, Display, USB, Storage (different files)) and
> they are identical. Not sure why a VBox run as root does not generate
> the signal 11.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Russell
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The problem should have been fixed with
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/21216
As Geoff pointed out that he had problems to build gimp-3.0 and gexiv2
needs to be rebuild to fix them.
After this update also our current gimp seems to work fine again.

Andreas