[workaround] Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird crashes in KDE4 when using File Dialog (File open/File save)

[Dennis Veatch]

On Sunday 24 January 2010 5:13:11 pm Dennis Veatch wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010 5:05:34 pm Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > because of rapid and hidden removal of qt3 and kde3 many apps may remain
> > broken or fail to start after lunar update. Here are few fixes you can do
> > to fix this total disaster.
> 
> I stopped using kde3 a long time ago; kde4 only. So which apps are you
> finding to be broken or fail to start? Or is it just the ones listed
> below?

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> 
> Those are good to know for those having that issue.
> 
> > gimp - I have no idea yet how to fix this app.

I presume you mean it crashing when clicking on;

File -> Open

Run it from a console and you get;

(script-fu:14059): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error

A quick Google reveals issues with script-fu going back several years and it 
is not platform dependent or operating system dependent or WM/DE dependent.

The Red Hat folks seems to think its an upstream issue; 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486122

and tried the fix from here;

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=130319&action=diff

But it did not fix anything; perhaps it requires more than Red Hat or the gimp 
folks suspected. Looking in the gimp-2.6.8 source the GTK_DISABLE_DEPRICIATED 
is there, so apparently that did not help much.

I have had gimp crash on me in the past over script-fu, even in my kde3 days. 
So its still an upstream issue afaic.


Dennis