Ubuntu – Segmentation fault (core dumped) – GIMP

gimpsegmentation faultsoftware installation

Running 15.10 / 32bit

I tried to install Gimp via PPA / with sudo apt-get install gimp and with Software center too. Each time after I uninstalled gimp, I used Purge command. And each time i tried to open it I got "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

Any other methods to try? I saw there are many cases out there similar with this, but none helped in my situation, couldn't manage to solve the error.

Best Answer

I had the same issue for 1 month, finally today I found how to resolve it. what I did was installing gdb and gimp-dbg:

sudo apt-get install gdb gimp-dbg

after that I ran:

gdb gimp
(gdb) run

it shows that segmentation fault happens from

/usr/lib/libamdocl64.so

I'm using a proprietary video driver from AMD so this debug message shows that something is wrong with my video driver (opencl sources). I installed latest Ubuntu driver from AMD and everything works again.

P.S. I added debugging steps for you to check if your issue is same or not, but in short if your issue is same, you can only go for installing the latest driver for your video card.

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