GIMP problems

[Graham Todd]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:29:34 -0400
Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:

> I have asked this question on the GIMP list but no one seemed to be
> able to offer any suggestions.
> I am running GIMP 2.6 on my Maverick partition...and for the past 
> several months the file selector (open file) seems to lockup more
> often than not.
> When it happens I cannot load any file or change directories and
> change the file type. Then weirdly things **might** start working
> again and a similar thing happens when I try to save files.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas? Other than this GIMP runs fine.
> 
> 

Sounds like a dependency/library seems to be missing or corrupted.
Have you tried reinstalling GIMP?

-- Graham Todd