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From: James Van Zandt <jim.vanzandt@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gimp: Crashes on startup: "Failed loading SDL3 library" then segfault
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:57:43 -0400
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Package: gimp
Version: 3.2.4-3
Severity: serious
Justification: repeatedly crashes on starup, program is unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: jim.vanzandt@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

I launched GIMP from the command line.  Intially I got this
   printed:
   $ gimp
   GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.775: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-save.so' load error: libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.776: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-load.so' load error: libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed loading SDL3 library.
Segmentation fault         gimp

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I tried the same command a few more times, with the same result. Then

At the suggesion of the Google AI, I tried

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install libopenexr-3-1-30

which didn't help, then

$ sudo apt-get reinstall gimp

   * What was the outcome of this action?

No improvement:

$ gimp
Failed loading SDL3 library.
Segmentation fault         gimp

$ gimp --verbose --console-messages --debug-handlers
Parsing '/etc/gimp/3.0/gimprc' for configuration data required during early initialization.
Parsing '/home/jrv/.config/GIMP/3.2/gimprc' for configuration data required during early initialization.
No language property found.
Failed loading SDL3 library.


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

splash screen, then the running program.


*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 7.1.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii  gimp-data            3.2.4-3
ii  gir1.2-gimp-3.0      3.2.4-3
ii  graphviz             14.1.2-1+b3
ii  libaa1               1.4p5-51.1+b2
ii  libappstream5        1.1.2-1+b1
ii  libarchive13t64      3.8.9-1
ii  libasound2t64        1.2.16.1-1
ii  libbabl-0.1-0        1:0.1.128-1
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.8-6+b2
ii  libc6                2.43-3
ii  libcairo2            1.18.4-3+b1
ii  libcfitsio10t64      4.6.4-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.17.1-5
ii  libfreetype6         2.14.3+dfsg-2
ii  libgcc-s1            16.2.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0  2.44.7+dfsg-1
ii  libgegl-0.4-0t64     1:0.4.70-4
ii  libgexiv2-0.16-4     0.16.2-1
ii  libgimp-3.0-0        3.2.4-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64      2.88.3-3
ii  libgomp1             16.2.0-1
ii  libgs10              10.07.1~dfsg-1
ii  libgtk-3-0t64        3.24.52-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0       238-7+b2
ii  libharfbuzz0b        12.3.2-2+b2
ii  libheif1             1.23.1-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:3.1.3-4
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0   1.10.8+ds-2+b1
ii  libjxl0.11           0.11.2-5
ii  liblcms2-2           2.19.1-1
ii  liblzma5             5.8.3-1
ii  libmng2              2.0.3+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libmypaint-1.5-1     1.6.0-4+b2
ii  libopenexr-3-4-33    3.4.6+ds-4+b2
ii  libopenjp2-7         2.5.4-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.58.0-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.58.0-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.58.0-1
ii  libpng16-16t64       1.6.58-1
ii  libpoppler-glib8t64  25.03.0-11.1+b1
ii  librsvg2-2           2.62.1+dfsg-1
ii  librsvg2-common      2.62.1+dfsg-1
ii  libstdc++6           16.2.0-1
ii  libtiff6             4.7.2-1
ii  libwebp7             1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii  libwebpdemux2        1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii  libwebpmux3          1.5.0-0.1+b2
ii  libwmf-0.2-7         0.2.14-1
ii  libwmflite-0.2-7     0.2.14-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.8.13-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.2.3-1+b2
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.4-1+b4
ii  libxfixes3           1:6.0.0-2+b5
ii  libxmu6              2:1.1.3-4+b1
ii  libxpm4              1:3.5.19-1
ii  python3-gi           3.57.1-1
ii  python3-gi-cairo     3.57.1-1
ii  xdg-utils            1.2.1-2
ii  zlib1g               1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.2-3

Versions of packages gimp recommends:
ii  ghostscript  10.07.1~dfsg-1

Versions of packages gimp suggests:
ii  gimp-data-extras          1:2.0.4-0.2
ii  gimp-help-en [gimp-help]  3.0.2-3
ii  gvfs-backends             1.60.0-2+b1
ii  python3                   3.14.6-1

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