Hello all,

My first post here - I've run into a strange problem and can't find an answer. Using Ubuntu 10.04, after some recent system updates, the Layers-Channels-Paths window no longer updates when a file is opened, the Layers area is empty, not showing a preview of the image. If I close and re-open the L-C-P window, then the layer preview of the image shows as normal, and the window as a whole works as expected.

I've tried everything I could think of to trace the source of the problem, to no avail. I think it must be caused by something that got recently updated in the system, but I haven't been able to find it. Initially I noticed the problem with Gimp 2.6.10 that I had compiled from source myself. I deleted it and installed 2.6.8 from the repositories, but the problem persists. I then went through "apt" and "dpkg" logs, looking for system components that had recently been updated and downgraded many of them, again to no avail.

My internet searches revealed a thread at Ubuntu forums a couple of years ago where someone had the exact same problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. The poster found no solution, but managed to solve the problem by installing 8.04 again. I think this is what I'm basically facing, having to re-install a clean 10.04. But I think there must be just one system library that I haven't tracked down that's responsible for this problem. Would anyone here have any idea which system library may be causing the problem?

It's a long shot, but worth asking. Thanks in advance.

Charlie