GIMP / X11 worked fine until today

I'm using GIMP with X11 and it works fine for me.
Today I tried to start (as usual) it but it freezes with the splash screen. The splash screen isn't even visible just a white rectangle.
I uninstalled GIMP and installed a fresh copy of it - no change. I rebootet - no change. I turned off the Mac - no change.
Could the Mac OS X update to 10.4.4 be the problem? I didn't start GIMP for a while...
Or should I reinstall X11?
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.4) iPod 20 GB (4th gen.)

Just found this site:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/502000627731
Looks like the font cache needs to be rebuilt. From that article:
"Try running sudo fc-cache -f -v from the Terminal. It will rebuild the fontconfig indexes. WorkedForMe(tm)."
I tried it. It looked like it was possibly doing something but I couldn't tell if it actually wanted input from me. I CTRL-C'd it and then just opened Gimp again and hid it (COMMAND+H on X11) with that white screen. After a few minutes the normal Gimp windows popped up and I was back in action. It really does look like it was rebuilding the Font Cache.
Inkscape now also works, too.

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