Gimp will not start without kdesudo

[michel]

Its me again! This time it's Gimp. Now it will not launch without kdesudo. Otherwise things have calmed down on the 12.04 front.

Thanks,

Michel

[oshunluvr]

I would so a quick search through your home directory and see if anything is owned by root.

[michel]

I checked the ownership of all the folders under my "home" and all were owned by me. I did not go into sub-folders though. The "home" folder itself is owned by root.

michel@michel-Satellite-L650:~$ find /home/ -uid 0
/home/
/home/.directory

Thanks,

Michel

[oshunluvr]

Try:

ls -aR ~ |grep root

[michel]

this is what i get:

michel@michel-Satellite-L650:~$ ls -aR ~ |grep root
dbroot_cache
48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz
48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir:
rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3:
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3/Root_Actions_2.7.3:
rootactions-servicemenu.pl
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3/Root_Actions_2.7.3/dolphin-KDE3:
10-rootactionsfolders.desktop
11-rootactionsfiles.desktop
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3/Root_Actions_2.7.3/dolphin-KDE4:
10-rootactionsfolders.desktop
11-rootactionsfiles.desktop
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3/Root_Actions_2.7.3/konqueror-KDE3:
10-rootactionsfolders.desktop
11-rootactionsfiles.desktop
12-rootactionsall.desktop
/home/michel/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/48411-rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3.tar.gz-dir/rootactions_servicemenu_2.7.3/Root_Actions_2.7.3/krusader-KDE4:
krusader_rootactions.xml
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
krusader-root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.png
krusader_root.png
gksu-root-terminal.svg
krusader_root.svg
10-rootactionsfolders.desktop
11-rootactionsfiles.desktop

Thanks,

Michel

[oshunluvr]

I don't see anything there that would stop gimp.

Try launching gimp from a terminal and observing any error output there.

[michel]

When I type "gimp" in console, nothing happens. I am going to purge gimp and reinstall.

Michel

Edit: I purged and re-installed using apt-get install. The application did not appear in the menu. I had to enter it myself. Using gimp in the menu command or typing gimp in konsole does nothing. I have to use kdesudo to launch the application.

Under user/bin I can see gimp and gimp-2.6 is that normal?

[kubicle]

Edit: I purged and re-installed using apt-get install. The application did not appear in the menu. I had to enter it myself. Using gimp in the menu command or typing gimp in konsole does nothing. I have to use kdesudo to launch the application.

I'd try removing (or renaming) gimp's config directory in user's home directory ( ~/.gimp*)

Under user/bin I can see gimp and gimp-2.6 is that normal?

It's normal if gimp is actually a symlink to gimp-2.6

[michel]

I did the following:

sudo apt-get autoremove gimp
sudo apt-get purge gimp
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean

I ran sudo apt-get update and had some signature problems so I ran these commands:
cd /var/lib/apt
sudo mv lists lists.old
sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I got a kernel update after that. Then I re-installed gimp and now it's working again.

Thanks,

Michel

[dmeyer]

Tried deleting the .gimp or .gimp-2.6 folder. Also you should seriously consider a ppa for 2.8. 2.8 is a huge step up...

[michel]

How do you go about it dmeyer?

Thanks,

Michel

[dmeyer]

How do you go about it dmeyer?

Thanks,

Michel

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

[michel]

You know I have been having lots of bugs lately. Will this get me into trouble?

Thanks,

Michel

[dmeyer]

You know I have been having lots of bugs lately. Will this get me into trouble?

Thanks,

Michel

No this should be fine. 12.04 was a pretty awful release in my opinion. I strongly recommend that you get 13.04 when it is released. Its going to be very good from what I've seen so far.

[michel]

Nice! It's working fine ... so far.

Thanks for the recommendations.

Michel