removing libopenblas-base solved the problem for me!
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:11:11 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: retitle 904544 gimp hangs on startup if libopenblas-base is installed > Control: reassign 904544 src:glibc 2.27-5 > Control: forcemerge 903514 904544 > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 at 19:00:32 +0800, Jun Jiang wrote: > > I saw James Van Zandt mentioned in [4]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ > > bugreport.cgi?bug=903514: > > > > "Specifically: > > sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base- libopenblas-dev- \ > > libblas3 liblapack3 libblas-dev liblapack-dev > ... > > And that solved my problem too. In my case, libopenblas-dev:amd64 (0.3.2+ds-1) > > and libopenblas-base:amd64 (0.3.2+ds-1) got removed and after that, GIMP > > launched successsfully just like it used to do. Hope it helps. > > OK, then it looks like this is another report of #903514. > > Thanks, > smcv > >