cvs can't create .gimp-1.1

[larry]

Without a pre-existing .gimp-1.1 directory,
gimp cvs will lock up immediately after
you issue "gimp" at the command line.

strace gimp reports over and over, at the 
end, that:

read(3, "\23\357w\0\27\0\200\1\27\0\200\1"..., 32) = 32
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
read(3, 0xbfffef80, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL