"Plug-in crashed" on GIMP 3.0.6, Windows 11

[ManderLists]

I just downloaded and installed 3.0.6 yesterday after being prompted to install an update. However, I can't open certain files to edit them as I get the following error messages:

Quote:GIMP Message
Plug-in crashed: "file-jpeg.exe"
(C:\Program Files\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins\file-jpeg\file-jpeg.exe)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

GIMP Message
Opening 'C:\Users\USER\Downloads\TestPhoto.jpg' failed:

Procedure 'file-jpeg-load' returned no return values

I found a thread referencing a similar problem so I checked to see what is in the plug-in folders under Preferences: 

• C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins (empty except the gmic plugin I tried to install)
  
• C:\Program Files\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins
  

This is only happening with certain .jpg files -- other ones seem to open fine. The files in question can be opened with other programs though, including GIMP 2.10.

[rich2005]

(10-28-2025, 05:29 PM)ManderLists Wrote: I just downloaded and installed 3.0.6 yesterday after being prompted to install an update. However, I can't open certain files to edit them as I get the following error messages:

Quote:GIMP Message
Plug-in crashed: "file-jpeg.exe"
(C:\Program Files\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins\file-jpeg\file-jpeg.exe)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

GIMP Message
Opening 'C:\Users\USER\Downloads\TestPhoto.jpg' failed:

Procedure 'file-jpeg-load' returned no return values

I found a thread referencing a similar problem so I checked to see what is in the plug-in folders under Preferences: 

• C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins (empty except the gmic plugin I tried to install)
  
• C:\Program Files\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins
  

This is only happening with certain .jpg files -- other ones seem to open fine. The files in question can be opened with other programs though, including GIMP 2.10.

Can you zip a problem file (so the file is not altered) and post here if small enough or something like dropbox if a large file.

[skullamrotis]

I'm having the EXACT same problem, but in Arch Linux. I already tried to reinstall with no success. 
Even if I try to convert the jpeg to png and webp, using the image magick, I still cannot open the png, nor the webp file.

Using Arch Linux, on most recent KDE, on wayland.
AMD64 cpu, and 5700xt graphics card.

The error messages are the exact same.

[rich2005]

It might be this bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/15129

quote: There's metadata in the file that causes GIMP to crash. We've fixed it in source and the correction will be in the next release.

You could try using ImageMagick mogrify -strip image.jpg then see if it opens in Gimp.

[skullamrotis]

(11-04-2025, 02:11 PM)rich2005 Wrote: It might be this bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/15129

quote:  There's metadata in the file that causes GIMP to crash. We've fixed it in source and the correction will be in the next release.

You could try using ImageMagick mogrify -strip image.jpg then see if it opens in Gimp.

Worked perfectly!
Thank you!