GIMP Crashes Instantly

[Giana_Jinx]

I'm sorry, but I'm Linux illiterate. What is this "grub bootup menu" and how do I get there?

[Giana_Jinx]

Also, if I clear out the RAM or whatever you're asking me to do, will this affect anything else in my system or make me lose data and/or personal files?

[Giana_Jinx]

I ran a memtest and it told me that everything was fine and I had no errors.

[ibjsb4]

Also, if I clear out the RAM or whatever you're asking me to do, will this affect anything else in my system or make me lose data and/or personal files?

When you first boot up your computer you get a screen that looks something like this
boot.png
Pick the first memory test and this will check all your ram for defects.
This is a test and will not harm your system.
Also this test usually takes a long time to run. I suggest you start it at night and see what results you have in the morning.

Edit: Looks like our timing is in sync

[Giana_Jinx]

I suppose it is in sync!

[ibjsb4]

Ok, I been looking through here

https://www.google.com/search?client...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Some older post suggest it could be the theme. May be worth trying. There are other ideas too, take a look for yourself.

This one looks good

https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=1932.0

Try opening gimp in your guest account.

[Giana_Jinx]

Dude, it opened in Guest /: . Do you know why that is?

[tgalati4]

Did you add any personal themes or other customizations to your account? It's possible the guest account is "clean" and therefore gimp runs OK. What customizations have you done recently?

As suggested by ibjsb4:

cd
ls -la .gimp*

It should look something like:

tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa ~ $ cd
tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa ~ $ ls -la .gimp*
total 528
drwxr-xr-x 24 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Jul 28 19:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 59 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Jul 28 19:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Jul 28 19:43 brushes
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 739 Jul 28 19:49 colorrc
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 1863 Jul 28 19:49 controllerrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 curves
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 343 Jul 28 19:49 dockrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 dynamics
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 environ
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 fractalexplorer
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 gfig
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 gflare
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 gimpressionist
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 gradients
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 430 Apr 1 2013 gtkrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 interpreters
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 levels
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 77320 Jul 28 19:49 menurc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 modules
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 palettes
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 102 Jul 28 19:49 parasiterc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 patterns
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 280885 Jul 28 19:42 pluginrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 plug-ins
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 scripts
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 1956 Jul 28 19:49 sessionrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 34483 Jul 28 19:49 tags.xml
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 4817 Jul 28 19:49 templaterc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 templates
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 312 Jul 28 19:42 themerc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 themes
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 tool-options
drwxr-xr-x 2 tgalati4 tgalati4 4096 Apr 1 2013 tool-presets
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 3996 Jul 28 19:49 toolrc
-rw------- 1 tgalati4 tgalati4 1178 Jul 28 19:49 unitrc

[keitai1948]

I had exactly the same problem. After trying many things at random what finally worked for me was simply going to the terminal and typing

gimp-console

This command did not show anything and blocked the terminal. So after waiting for some 3 minutes, I did a Control+C to terminate the process and now magically Gimp works fine!