On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:06:35 +0530, phani <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless this is something specific to Arch, I'm pretty much in doubt that anyone can sort this out for you here. The graphics stack is quite complex, so there are a lot of places were things could go wrong. You are probably best off by resolving these kind of issues upstream (see [2]), where people know what to look for.
didn't get any reply from the GIMP users list, but Emmanuel Benisty from this list had the answer: i had to downgrade cairo (1.12.10-1 -> 1.12.8-2), and now things work fine again.
(the reply was sent to my personal address, probaby by mistake.) -- phani.
