Gimp crashes when loading png or jpg

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 31, 2018, at 14:11, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

> Suddenly my gimp crashes when I try to load a PNG or JPG file. It gives the error message:
> Plug-in crashed: "file-png"
> (/Applications/MacPorts/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-png/file-png)
> 
> Plug-in crashed: "file-jpeg"
> (/Applications/MacPorts/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-jpeg/file-jpeg)
> 
> This is gimp @2.10.8_0+animation+quartz and gimp2 @2.10.8_2+python27+quartz on MacOS High Sierra.
> I upgraded on 26 december and before that it worked. I also uninstalled and reinstalled both gim and gimp2 from source but that did not help.
> 
> Is this a known issue?

I'm not sure. Did something actually crash? If so, a log should have been left behind in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports; if so, showing us that logfile might help us diagnose the issue.