GIMP packages don't work with jpegs on 9.2

GIMP 2 on suse has problems opening jpegs which contain exif data in a certain form (I have problems with all pictures taken from my digimaster (sony) 4.2 megapixel cam. I get the jpeg plugin segfaulting every time I open a jpeg (old version does not do this) I have tried compiling from scratch and trying more recent apt versions. Other people on #gimp do not seem to have this problem. Anyone suggest a fix? (can provide backtrace/strace if requested + sample image that causes issue). As a workaround I have found that resizing/converting to png in a differnt program will fix the issue which lead me to beleive it's the exif data. I will try compiling without exif support tonight and see if that fixes it. Kind regards Joel W