gimp hangs in Fedora 7

Dear All,
I have been a Linux user for more than a decade. However, the
experience that program hangs in Linux is somewhat new for me.

After I upgraded my machine (Dell, 1GB RAM, PIV processor) to Fedora
7, gimp has started to hang after about ten minutes of use. It works
fine (pencil, crop and fill), but whenever I try to open or save a
file from the File menu, the menu appears and then gimp hangs. Nothing
can be done after that except forced kill. I have checked the /var/log/
messages, but nothing is in there. I have tried deleting my .gimp
directory and using gimp afresh, but nothing improves.

Then I started using (only) gimp as a superuser (using su -c), and lo
and behold, all the problems get solved. I am always against running
an application as the superuser, and advise people against it, but I
really need to meet a few deadlines.

Could you please tell me what other logs (and other bells and whistles
I need to check. And also how can I solve the problem.

gimp version gimp-2.2.14-5.fc7.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Masroor wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have been a Linux user for more than a decade. However, the
> experience that program hangs in Linux is somewhat new for me.
>
> After I upgraded my machine (Dell, 1GB RAM, PIV processor) to Fedora
> 7, gimp has started to hang after about ten minutes of use. It works
> fine (pencil, crop and fill), but whenever I try to open or save a
> file from the File menu, the menu appears and then gimp hangs. Nothing
> can be done after that except forced kill. I have checked the /var/log/
> messages, but nothing is in there. I have tried deleting my .gimp
> directory and using gimp afresh, but nothing improves.
>
> Then I started using (only) gimp as a superuser (using su -c), and lo
> and behold, all the problems get solved. I am always against running
> an application as the superuser, and advise people against it, but I
> really need to meet a few deadlines.
>
> Could you please tell me what other logs (and other bells and whistles
> I need to check. And also how can I solve the problem.
>
> gimp version gimp-2.2.14-5.fc7.
>
> Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
>
Any time something works as superuser but not in the normal user account
I always find a permissions problem somewhere.Since the problem is new
after an upgrade,I'd look at permissions on config files,something not
being read.Just my 2 cents,as you'll see from the no# in my sig,no ten
years here.

Dave

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