Re: GIMP 2.6.6 crashing?

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:13:07PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I just installed GIMP 2.6.6 on NetBSD 5 / i386, but it crashes a lot 
> like when trying to access Edit/Preferences, I get
> 
>   "assertion \"character != 0\" failed: file \"xdgmimecache.c\", line 462,
>   function \"cache_glob_node_lookup_suffix\"\n"

This seems to be caused by files which have non-ascii characters in their
names (like ä or ö).  I renamed such files in $HOME and gimp started up and
works (for some definition of "works").  I don't like this as a permanent
solution, though..

  -jm