Crashing X/Gnome with Gimp... [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed

[Tod Liebeck <tliebeck interkinetic com>]

I just installed gimp 1.1.6, which is still quite unstable, but instead
of crashing cleanly, it effectively halts the X Window system each time
it crashes.  This appears to be a Gnome related problem... in KDE, the
Gimp is the only application that crashes, everything else continues to
work fine.  When the Gimp crashes is Gnome, I get the following error on
the console where I started X:

/usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/psd: Segmentation fault caught
/usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/psd (pid:19361): [E]xit, [H]alt, show
[S]tack trace or [P]roceed: _

Once this happens, you have to kill and restart X to begin working
again.  This problem is also not just related to the Gimp.  Older
versions of GMC used to do this as well (has been fixed for a long
time), as well as some other random apps.

IMHO, on a desktop machine, an X crash is equivalent to a Windows95
total/complete system crash, and no application should ever be allowed
to cause something like this.

P.S. The Gimp 1.1.6 action that causes the crash is opening any .PSD
Photoshop file.