[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1145050: gimp: Crashes on startup: "Failed loading SDL3 library" then segfault

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 8:59 PM James Van Zandt <jim.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Are you still experiencing this issue? If not, this may have been
fixed with gimp 3.2.4-3+b1 which has this note "Rebuild against
libimath-3-2-30"

I believe these kinds of issues happen occasionally in Debian Unstable
where there may be incomplete library transitions and are less likely
to happen with Debian Testing.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha