Gimp Stuck

[Konstantin Svist]

On 10/18/2012 02:48 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I've got my Gimp stuck.  File->Open and it locks - the only way out is
> force-quit.  It can do recently open, but the main 'open' dialog and
> the save-as dialog are both guaranteed lockups.  Any ideas?
>
> Jonathan

Sounds like it's having problems reading from the filesystem -- either 
the harddrive is dying or you have a mounted network share that's not 
connected or something like that.
When you run top, you'll probably see 'D' (uninterruptible sleep) in the 
'S' (state) column for gimp process.