Gimp and Blender

[rdhoward]

Hi there,
I am new to pclinuxos ( The Full Monty) and I really like the interface, but I have a problem with it. Yesterday, I upgraded with Synaptic and I have discovered that Blender and The Gimp will not load. I get  the normal activity in my panel bur after about three seconds it will disappear; neither will run, I have to reboot, before I can try again.
Can somebody help me with this problem?  Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
rdhoward

[menotu]

Hi rdhoward, big welcome to the forum, lovely to have you with us.

I can confirm that Blender 2.64a will not start.

From a Konsole I get the following error messages

[billy@localhost ~]$ blender
Color management: using fallback mode for management
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
Aborted

And as root:

root@localhost billy]# blender
Color management: using fallback mode for management
AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
Aborted

But no problem with Gimp, that starts fine

[rdhoward]

Thank you Menotu for your quick response. I did get Gimp to working by removing it and then re-installing. How ever Blender presents a problem which I hope you can solve, because I haven't the faintest idea where to start

[jimwilk]

rdhoward,

First of all, welcome to this great forum.

I am using an older version of Blender, 2.60, and it boots up just fine.

Jim