Bucket Fill Problems

[ggallant571]

My linux system upgrade, Fedora 42, comes with gimp 3 which is behaving oddly. Bucket fill is quite strange. After a couple of fill operations the earlier fill regions get mangled. Looks like the region has rings of different intensity.

I have been using gimp 2.x for many years and tried to build it from source but getting compilation errors.

Also having problem with many of the "select" by options. Select by color selects the last painted cells, select NONE typically does absolutely nothing, select ALL seems to select the entire current layer.

Very frustrating!!!! I cannot currently show these problems as I uninstalled gimp 3 when attempting to load a earlier version.

[rich2005]

If you had an existing Gimp 2.10 installation, Gimp 3.0 might have migrated some settings. Have you tried resetting the tool options in Edit -> Preferences -> Tool Options -> Reset to Default Values.

[ggallant571]

(Yesterday, 07:34 AM)rich2005 Wrote: If you had an existing Gimp 2.10 installation, Gimp 3.0 might have migrated some settings. Have you tried resetting the tool options in Edit -> Preferences -> Tool Options  -> Reset to Default Values.

On Linux gimp has a dedicated directory for each version, 2 & 3.  I erased the version 3 files and reinstalled gimp 3.0.6. It worked properly last night and for a couple hours today. Currently back to the odd behavior. Going to try erasing the config files again. Current odd behavior is I erase a pixel on a layer and another layer gets a solid fill and then (couple of seconds) the erased pixel becomes a large square of the last color used. I wonder if there is some memory allocation or disc space that is overflowing. 

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(Yesterday, 07:34 AM)rich2005 Wrote: If you had an existing Gimp 2.10 installation, Gimp 3.0 might have migrated some settings. Have you tried resetting the tool options in Edit -> Preferences -> Tool Options  -> Reset to Default Values.

Deleting the GIMP 3.0 configuration directory seems to restore operation to normal.


On Linux gimp has a dedicated directory for each version, 2 & 3.  I erased the version 3 files and reinstalled gimp 3.0.6. It worked properly last night and for a couple hours today. Currently back to the odd behavior. Going to try erasing the config files again. Current odd behavior is I erase a pixel on a layer and another layer gets a solid fill and then (couple of seconds) the erased pixel becomes a large square of the last color used. I wonder if there is some memory allocation or disc space that is overflowing.

[rich2005]

Using linux and reinstalled Gimp ? Unless it is an upgrade that should not be necessary. Typically there are a multiple dependencies that will remain. Then Gimp 3.0.6 - is that correct or a typo.

However, A reset gets it working for a short time, so you need to ask yourself, was working, not working now, what happened in between. Are you working in a high precision ? Is more than a single layer selected ?

You could try posting a screenshot of the whole Gimp interface just as that weird effect takes place. Showing tool options and layers.

[ggallant571]

(Today, 07:28 AM)The switch from gimp 2.10 to 3.0 occurred when I upgraded Linux Fedora from 39 to 41. Next time it shows it\s ugly face I will snapshot the configuration directory. I have a project due tomorrow morning (think it is ready) and should have some time to test.Some thoughts:1. When the fault happens save the work. Examine the file on another machine running GIMP 2.10 to determine if the issue is with the file or the display.2. GIMP has some options that effect memory usage and recovery.3. Build gimp 2.10 from source - currently fails with library issues.4. Find an AppImage version of 2.10.5. Hope that someone else reports the same problem!!!! rich2005 Wrote: Using linux and reinstalled Gimp ? Unless it is an upgrade that should not be necessary.  Typically there are a multiple dependencies that will remain.  Then Gimp 3.0.6 - is that correct or a typo.

However, A reset gets it working for a short time, so you need to ask yourself, was working, not working now, what happened in between. Are you working in a high precision ? Is more than a single layer selected ?

You could try posting a screenshot of the whole Gimp interface just as that weird effect takes place.  Showing tool options and layers.