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FS#1356 - inkscape crashes on start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 08:57 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 19:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi,

i can't run inkscape 0.39-1 and it returns this message:

[10:52][comete:/>~]$ inkscape

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.

i've removed my ~/.inkscape directory but it didn't change anything...


Thanx

Comete
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Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Thursday, 09 December 2004, 16:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 20:15 GMT
Hm, I knew this would come ... since a couple of people were talking about on IRC. Unfortunately I can't reproduce that on my boxes. Did you doo anything but opening such as "New" or "Open" ore a path stroke? I have no clue where that comes from. The error message isn't any informative since it doesn't say anything about missing libs or stuff. Please can anyone confirm that crash?
Comment by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Thursday, 02 September 2004, 05:37 GMT
hi Tobias !

the problem is that inkscape doesn't let me do anything, i don't even see the GUI. I just start it with : inkscape on the command line and it crashes...

sorry

Comete
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Friday, 10 September 2004, 16:42 GMT
I rebuilt inkscape due to this issue and that it is bothering about libstd++.so.6 in the new gcc, although it is still running on the systems without crashing. I hope it helps you on that problem, otherwise I don't see that it would be a generall issue rather a problem on your particular box. I leave it open please reply if it helped!
Thanks
-tobbi
Comment by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Sunday, 12 September 2004, 19:34 GMT
hi Tobias !

Thanks for your support !
i've tried this rebuilt package with no success again on my workstation and on my laptop too. It shows exactly the same message...

Comete
Comment by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Sunday, 12 September 2004, 19:43 GMT
just to say that i've just reproduced this crash on a third computer...

Comete
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 18 September 2004, 09:48 GMT
i got the same problem. on all of my systems.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 21:50 GMT
You guys drive me crazy. I can't reproduce any thing. Interestingly it seems that when one person is affected it happens on all of his or her boxes. There seems to be something, which is done by you guys, which you do on all of your boxes, something that is different from Archlinux' standard configuration. Or maybe you have ATI cards on all of your boxes?(I don't have any, Nvidia all the way here) I'm really pushing my crystal ball.
On other thing. There is an entry on inkscapes newspage about memory issues which are supposed to be fixed on cvs. Can you observe memory on opening an crashing and report.
Finally, please delete ~/.inkscape. Maybe it's some inherited misconfiguration.
I'm clueless on this one, sorry.
Comment by Daniel Hofer (laxity) - Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 16:58 GMT
I also had this problem, but I just got it to work.
I just recompiled gc with "--enable-cplusplus" and it worked.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 17:09 GMT
Hi daniel,

I just installed pacman -S gc to see what happens, and inkscape still opens, although i used the standard package from Archlinux, which I gathered from the cvs is not built with --enable-cplusplus. So I will try it another box and see what happens. But maybe we come closer :-)
Also there seems a new inkscape version waiting soon, time will tell ...
Comment by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 18:53 GMT
I've tested something interesting:
i've used another WM than XFCE4 (which i usually use): WindowMaker, and launched inkscape with no problem this time, i've also tried with Gnome and it worked too. So, i've retried with XFCE4 and it crashed again.
It seems to be a problem with the window manager. I don't know if this is due to XFCE4 only but...

Comete
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 20:58 GMT
Well this is extremely interesting, since I use XFWM4 all the way. If any one sees a pattern in this stuff going on, please tell me. But I will try to use other WMs, too.
Comete, did you also try Aureliens PKGBUILD set for xfce-4.2beta. For me inkscape works with either version -- the stable we have in arch and this beta.
Comment by Morgan LEFIEUX (Comete) - Tuesday, 09 November 2004, 23:20 GMT
it works now ! Don't know why but it works even with XFCE4.
am i the only one ?
Can this bug report be closed now ?
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 11:19 GMT
Thanks for tracking this bug - my guess is now that the whole issue is somehow related to an gcc issue like this one:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=1399
With the upgrade of gcc also a couple of other issues have been gone. Tricky c++ stuff...
I will leave it open for some time, hopefully other people can confirm that it's working now.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 09 December 2004, 16:11 GMT
gc became an explicit dependency with version 0.40. So I included that as default now, although it is actually an option on ther untime with can be determined by some ENV-vars. Although I did a couple of testsbased on gc with configure several switches now to reproduce the issue I wasn't able to trigger the issue. No more complaints so far, so I close it. Hopefully the gc dependency let get us rid of it forever. For the records, I run inkscape with out of the box gc, which has no --enable-cplusplus configured -- strange!

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