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My install of GIMP is suddenly crashing on startup.

The launcher window opens and runs through it's setup process, but the font is all messed up (see screenshot).

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The same boxes show on the main GIMP window, which opens for a second, then closes.

I installed GIMP via snap, and when I try to open it via the terminal the following error is outputted:

kirk@masterblaster6:~$ gimp &
[1] 46505
kirk@masterblaster6:~$ /snap/gimp/281/usr/bin/gimp: Gimp-Widgets-WARNING: parse_iso_codes: error parsing '/build/gimp/parts/gimp/install/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_639.xml': No such file or directory

Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object width does not accept value [60 402)
/snap/gimp/281/usr/bin/gimp: Gimp-Text-CRITICAL: gimp_font_factory_load_names: assertion 'fontset' failed
gimp_check_updates_callback: loading of https://gimp.org/gimp_versions.json failed: Operation not supported


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion 'dest_width > 0' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels_with_length: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_rowstride: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 10:37:03.236: gdk_pixbuf_get_n_channels: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gimp:46505): GLib-ERROR *: 10:37:03.236: ../../../../glib/gmem.c:333: overflow allocating 1844674407370955161518446744073709551615 bytes


(script-fu:46620): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: 10:37:03.370: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error


[1]+  Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) gimp

The only thing I can think of that I did recently that could have messed with my installation is I installed Google Fonts locally via this script, but other programs like Inkscape and OBS Studio are loading in the fonts without crashing no problem.

Anyone got any ideas?

saricDen
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I too faced the same issue. running the following commands to clear fontcache from the system solved the issue for me.

Commands:

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

Turns out this is an issue with snap.

YourPalNurav
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