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Hi, I just downloaded Gimp 2.10.20 on my laptop with windows 10.
I used Gimp before on my pc and everything was fine.
But on my laptop it crushes on startup I can just see a black window come up, but it closes immediately right after.
after checking what's written there that's what I managed to find:
../babl-0.1.78/babl/babl-internal.h:222 babl_fatal()
babl_format("CIE Lab double"): not found
'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
that's what I get after running Gimp using "--verbose".
I have no idea what to do about it, and I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks!
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Any reason for running 2.10.20? I am running 2.10.22 just fine on a Windows 10 laptop (64 bit). Maybe a reinstall with that version?
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well I managed to fix the problem by downloading Gimp 2.99.2.
it works just fine so I guess every thing is alright.
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The development Gimp 2.99 does use its own Gimp profile. In Widows I think C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.99
Which suggests that the previous problem was in the Gimp 2.10 user profile C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10
Did you ever try deleting that folder ...Gimp\2.10 then running Gimp 2.10 to create a new default profile ?
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01-05-2021, 08:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2021, 09:04 PM by tjey.)
Just to test the theory that it's related to the space in the middle the user name, I tried creating an additional user without a space in the middle of the name, and tried starting GIMP when logged in as that user. I'm still seeing the same problem.
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My previous message seems to have gotten lost some, so I'm reposting.
I'm seeing this same problem again, and reinstalling doesn't seem to help.
I've created an issue for the problem (#6232) that includes a screenshot of the error I'm getting.
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I have managed to get my issue resolved. There was an environment variable BABL_PATH set to point to a directory from a previously installed (and since removed) version of GIMP. Once I removed that environment variable, GIMP starts up properly.
I figured I should update this thread just in case somebody else stumbled across it in the future while looking for a resolution.
