gimp won't start

[Paul]

(gimp:5900): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I get this message from command line, and from the menu it wont start either.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gimp 2.6.11-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 12 16:51:00 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gimp-2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: gimp
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x116e6ff: mov %edx,0x4(%edi)
 PC (0x0116e6ff) ok
 source "%edx" ok
 destination "0x4(%edi)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gimp
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECT () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gimp-2.6 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECT()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors: (knotify4:4968): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #764920, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.