I am trying out Mac Gimp 2.8 as an alternative to Photoshop. I've been wanting to go for more OS stuff and wondered if Gimp would play nice. It seems both Photoshop and Gimp get the same error working with text. As soon as I try to work with my fonts in Gimp I get:
Process: X11.bin [2865]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
Identifier: org.x.X11
Version: 2.3.6 (2.3.6)
Build Info: X11server-850300~2
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: Xquartz [2864]
Date/Time: 2012-05-10 16:33:42.741 +0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 326391 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 18
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2931240 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8
Anonymous UUID: 00AEB68B-72E9-4A9A-812A-B2C773A30E8D
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 2
Application Specific Information:
X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple56 Build Date: 20100624
Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83069d7a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8306a3ed mach_msg + 59
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b5b902 __CFRunLoopRun + 1698
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b5ad8f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff815697ee RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 333
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff815695f3 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 310
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff815694ac BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 59
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8978eeb2 _DPSNextEvent + 708
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8978e801 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8975468f -[NSApplication run] + 395
10 X11.bin 0x0000000100007035 X11ApplicationMain + 1210
11 X11.bin 0x000000010001136d server_main + 217
12 X11.bin 0x000000010000180d do_start_x11_server + 321
13 X11.bin 0x00000001000024e0 _Xstart_x11_server + 143
14 X11.bin 0x0000000100002352 mach_startup_server + 106
15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830e69a8 mach_msg_server + 357
16 X11.bin 0x000000010000228b main + 1378
17 X11.bin 0x0000000100001268 start + 52
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83082c0a kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83084add _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 154
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830847b4 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 185
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830842de _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 252
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83083c08 _pthread_wqthread + 353
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83083aa5 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 2 Crashed:
0 X11.bin 0x000000010001bc1b RootlessComposite + 129
1 X11.bin 0x00000001000bab39 ProcRenderComposite + 374
2 X11.bin 0x000000010005b781 Dispatch + 751
3 X11.bin 0x0000000100069cac dix_main + 1309
4 X11.bin 0x000000010001149e server_thread + 50
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2fd6 _pthread_start + 331
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2e89 thread_start + 13
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83069d7a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8306a3ed mach_msg + 59
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b5b902 __CFRunLoopRun + 1698
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b5ad8f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b5ab16 CFRunLoopRun + 70
5 X11.bin 0x0000000100020469 xpbproxy_run + 554
6 X11.bin 0x0000000100007065 xpbproxy_x_thread + 9
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2fd6 _pthread_start + 331
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2e89 thread_start + 13
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a4a6a __semwait_signal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a8881 _pthread_cond_wait + 1286
2 X11.bin 0x000000010000dcf7 DarwinProcessFDAdditionQueue_thread + 89
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2fd6 _pthread_start + 331
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff830a2e89 thread_start + 13
The error I am getting using fonts in Adobe CS5 Photoshop is http://pastebin.com/pw9ZghGj and here a snippet:
Process: Adobe Photoshop CS5 [4174]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS5
Identifier: com.adobe.Photoshop
Version: 12.0.4 (12.0.4x20110407.r.1265) (12.0.4)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [422]
Date/Time: 2012-05-11 09:12:37.047 +0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 332574 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 19
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 73671 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 22
Anonymous UUID: 00AEB68B-72E9-4A9A-812A-B2C773A30E8D
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007f7f70335814
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: release
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff88003f0c objc_msgSend + 40
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81bd6361 __CFRunArrayDeallocate + 321
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b1aa73 _CFRelease + 179
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81b1aa73 _CFRelease + 179
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff815961bf TCoreTextEngine::Invalidate() + 31
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff81545472 TCoreTextEngine::Init(void const*, THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 60
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff815451e4 TThemeTextCache::Create(void const*, THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 198
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff81544cc6 DataEngine::GetTextDimensions(void const*, double, HIThemeTextInfo*, double*, double*, double*) + 356
8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff81544b25 HIThemeGetTextDimensions + 158
9 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000d13cf 0x100000000 + 857039
10 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000d15fc 0x100000000 + 857596
11 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000d16d8 0x100000000 + 857816
12 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000e405a 0x100000000 + 933978
13 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000dcc29 0x100000000 + 904233
14 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000dcd1d 0x100000000 + 904477
15 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000e8226 0x100000000 + 950822
16 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000c58f3 0x100000000 + 809203
17 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000c58f3 0x100000000 + 809203
18 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000c58f3 0x100000000 + 809203
19 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000c58f3 0x100000000 + 809203
20 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000c2fec 0x100000000 + 798700
21 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x00000001000bec72 0x100000000 + 781426
22 com.adobe.Photoshop 0x0000000100fb7894 AWS_CUI_GetVersionComments(OpaqueWindowPtr*, adobe::q::QDocument&, adobe::q::QString&, adobe::q::QAttributeList&, adobe::q::QDocument*, adobe::q::QProject*, long) + 13480952
Does anyone have any idea why Gimp is crashing here and how I can use it to add text layers again? I need to get some work done here and it just crashes as soon as I have selected a font and tried to add some text. I also wonder if the PS and Gimp errors are related.
I do have around 300 fonts installed. Macs and Gimp or Photoshop won't choke on that amount now will they..?!
When I load Gimp running onder Xquartz based on the MacPorts package after I added all the new fonts it did not crash. So this could be an Apple X11 issue or other Apple native code issue as Gimp 2.8 running under Apple's X11 naively is still crashing.
Update
Still no fix. Just got a new crash. See http://pastebin.com/i7DtHMVD . Again tried to edit text in Gimp and failed.
Update 2
Added latest Xquartz and upgraded OS to Lion. All is good now.
Best Answer
I experienced the same issue with Gimp. Installing quartz 2.7.1 and then a log out and back in to point at xquartz instead of Apple's x11 has helped.
The text tool now works for me on Gimp v2.8.