On Jan 7, 2008 10:39 AM, Nigel Ridley <<a href="mailto:nigel@rmk.co.il">nigel@rmk.co.il</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008, Nigel Ridley wrote: > >> My daughter is complaining that her gutsy install only has gimp rc >> (release candidate) available - and that there are loads of things that >> don't work. >> Why is there no 'stable' version available - or at least one that works >> [mostly]? ></blockquote><div> I noticed that my version, just doing regular updates, is now at 2.4.2. This is not an RC version, but an update to 2.4 Maybe doing an update via the Gutsy repositories will help? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sorry for taking so long to reply - I finally managed to get my daughter to write down the problem: She wants to add a border to an image. She right-clicks > Filters > Decor > Border. She chooses a size in the dialogue box (1 for both x & y) then OK. The Gimp starts the process but ends with an error message: Gimp Message Plug-in 'Add Border' left image undo in inconsistent state, closing open undo groups. </blockquote> </div> This works fine for me. I would suggest doing an update (command line would be something like: sudo aptitude safe-upgrade) and see if you get a newer version with more bug-fixes. I have 2.4.2 now. The other would be checking memory usage and swap space usage. Perhaps doing this operation when first starting GIMP would work, while later when more memory is in use it would not. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own