gimp2 2.6.6_0: Crash - Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException was raised

[simon@…]

When opening a large file file in Gimp (1680x1050) and copying a selection from it Gimp crashes with an uncaught exception error.

Console output:

2009-04-26 11:21:29.493 gimp-2.6[48726:10b] An uncaught exception was raised
2009-04-26 11:21:29.494 gimp-2.6[48726:10b] *** -[NSConcreteData initWithBytes:length:copy:freeWhenDone:bytesAreVM:]: absurd length: -1, maximum size: -2147483648 bytes
2009-04-26 11:21:29.494 gimp-2.6[48726:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSConcreteData initWithBytes:length:copy:freeWhenDone:bytesAreVM:]: absurd length: -1, maximum size: -2147483648 bytes'
2009-04-26 11:21:29.495 gimp-2.6[48726:10b] Stack: (
    2517836043,
    2464779835,
    2517835499,
    2517835562,
    2447261264,
    2447428824,
    2447661200,
    8591726,
    8568643,
    2430774104,
    2517266524,
    2517200161,
    2517338344,
    2517339352,
    2523312832,
    2523312345,
    2523311949,
    2427313533,
    2427311664,
    10689255,
    16557455,
    16558695,
    12057,
    16435,
    11206
)
Trace/BPT trap

Crash reporter:

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x96131fb4 ___TERMINATING_DUE_TO_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION___ + 4
1   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x92e98e3b objc_exception_throw + 40
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x960b8ab3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4355
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x960b8cd8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
4   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x9666b2c0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
5   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x9666b0d9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
6   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x9666af4d BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
7   com.apple.AppKit              	0x90addd7d _DPSNextEvent + 657
8   com.apple.AppKit              	0x90add630 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
9   libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib     	0x00a31ae7 poll_func + 135
10  libglib-2.0.0.dylib           	0x00fca58f g_main_context_iterate + 735
11  libglib-2.0.0.dylib           	0x00fcaa67 g_main_loop_run + 455
12  gimp-2.6                      	0x00002f19 app_run + 601
13  gimp-2.6                      	0x00004033 main + 1075
14  gimp-2.6                      	0x00002bc6 start + 54

I removed all ~/.gimp-2.* directories as well as trying to rebuild gtk2, glib2 and gimp2 as those are in the stack trace of the crashed thread. This does not happen on handling images with smaller dimensions like 640x480.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

I see this is a +quartz build. Since upgrading to gtk2 2.16.1, I've been seeing similar problems with the quartz build. X11 build seems to be ok. 2.6.6 was supposed to fix build problems with gtk 2.16 but perhaps they missed something.

Can you see if reverting to the previous version of gtk2 resolves the problem? What version OS X and platform are you using?

[simon@…]

It's an Intel based iMac (8,1) running 10.5.6 (9G55). I get the same error using gtk2 @2.14.7_2+no_x11+quartz though.

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Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Is this reproducible with 2.6.11?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

I've tested the latest GIMP releases with much larger images than this, with no such problems. Plus this ticket refers to a very old version of GIMP, from more than a decade ago.

So this ticket can be closed.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Per comment:6, this is no longer an issue. Closing.