On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Mike Miller wrote:

> It's Gimp 2.8.20.  It is unusable -- no menus!!
>
> What the heck is going on here?  Ubuntu used to just work.  Now with 
> 17.04 it crashes daily, and *very* severely (worse than BSOD -- I wish I 
> could have BSOD instead!), and now I can't even use Gimp.

The good news with upgrade to 17.10 is that the Gimp menu now works.

My crashing problem was improving over time, presumably because of 
updates.  I was going up to 3 days without a crash.  I hope 17.10 fixes 
that even further.

Thanks for the responses to this post.

Mike