In message 20000219103139.A19922@thebowery.co.uk, Adam Bower adamb@thebowery.co.uk writes
I can't get it to do even the simplest transformations. Trying to rotate a selection, for example, produces no result other than a lot of hard disk activity which appears quite rapidly to fill up the partition in use, whether home or root; the only way out that I have found is to log off and start again. Is this a known problem? I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.1, the Macmillan distribution, on a Dell which has an Nvidia TNT2 graphics card.
Well, 1.0.4 is the latest(?) stable version and is as stable as a rock AFAIK. I've been using a cvs snapshot shortly after development version 1.1.16 was released and again it's pretty stable.
Perhaps you could tell us your gimp version, and any other relevant info (try gtk-config --version and tell us the result).
Also whats the machines spec i.e. Ram and Swap space? and how big is the file your trying to work on? What is the output of the commands df and free before and after running the gimp?
Adam
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Yes, the gimp version is 1.0.4. The machine has a Pentium III 500Mh with 64Mb RAM. My swap partition is 128Mb. I have tried various file sizes, the smallest being the default New file with one small rectangle drawn and filled. Applying even a small rotation to it starts off the above symptoms. df and free produced the following before and after running gimp from the home partition (HDA7). HDA6 (root) remained constant at 55% use. HDA7 before 22Mb 2% after 390Mb 41% Memory Used Free Shared Buffer Cache Before 61644 1372 4700 1564 32096 After 62428 728 5116 27872 3304
I must point that the above was just a snapshot of what was going on. I checked HDA7 again and found 77% used. I bailed out then by logging off and shutting down. The message KDE gave about information which would be lost listed the Gimp file which was obviously still open and 'rotation information'. I then rebooted and logged on as root. HDA7 was 96% used and I found a hidden file called xsession-errors in my home directory - size 905,928k! Too big to open so I deleted it.
I found in a Q&A forum (xach.com mean anything?) someone who was getting some sort of crash in Gimp while using bezier tools, also in Linux Mandrake 6.1. He didn't get it with Red Hat 6.0. Someone pointed that it is possible that Mandrake compile using pgcc, which uses 'overzealous optimisation' Compiling gimp with gcc was suggested as a possible remedy. I wouldn't know how to go about that though.
Sorry if some of the above is unclear or inaccurate but at the moment I can use neither modem nor printer with Linux so have to scribble things down and then reboot in Windows to communicate, but that's another story!