Without a pre-existing .gimp-1.1 directory, gimp cvs will lock up immediately after you issue "gimp" at the command line. strace gimp reports over and over, at the end, that: read(3, "\23\357w\0\27\0\200\1\27\0\200\1"..., 32) = 32 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 read(3, 0xbfffef80, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL
