Something stopping Gimp loading

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little 
Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts.  I 
can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log so I have used 
dpkg --purge to remove a number of programs to no avail.  I have done a 
number of apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade runs since I last used 
Gimp.  Although the upgrades were quite large I assume they are not the 
problem since I have seen nothing on the list about this problem.

Any suggestions of what to try next would be most welcome.

Tom