Oh boy, there are already two issues about this.. Seems my search was rather bad.. On 07/30/2012 07:16 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
Consider downgrading libcairo2 to 1.10.x and putting it on hold until the problem is resolved (might take a few years, though).
I downgraded to the version that is in debian backports and so far so good. Thanks for your time Sven!!