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FS#2174 - Inkscape 0.41 crashes on load

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 20:42 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 21:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After installing the new inkscape 0.41 without problems, the app fails to load. Here's its error log:

eugenia@lc2430:~/.inkscape> cat extension-errors.log
Extension "Postscript Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency::
type: executable
location: path
string: pstoedit

Extension "AI Output" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency::
type: executable
location: path
string: pstoedit

Extension "EPS Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency::
type: extension
location: path
string: org.inkscape.input.ps

Extension "Sketch Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency::
type: executable
location: path
string: skconvert

Extension "Windows Metafile Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency::
type: executable
location: path
string: wmf2svg

I sure hope more testing was going on before releasing packages.
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Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Tuesday, 01 March 2005, 18:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  this bug should be gone with the upgrade of gtk-engines
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 21:47 GMT
Well that's not an crash, you just press that button and it runs, right?
It's a warning (watch the wm title) and I wish they had used another design for that popup. It just tells you that a couple of extensions (note: extension-error.log) are not installed and thus some tools are not available. Sure, I could have made all this things hard dependencies, but I don't wann force people more than it is necessary anyway. Also wmf2svg isn't even in our repos, and I don't have such things installed in my building chroot. There is a checkbox where you can disable this warning/notification.
If I'm wrong and there is really a hard crash for you, please post me the output you recieve from the command line.
maybe a post_install message would help to prvent confusion. I wished this was really a nicer notification...
btw, I did test this package b4 :)
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 21:49 GMT
No, after I hit "close" on that popup, Inkscape loads its window for a *split second* and then *crashes* . It says "segmentation fault".
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:01 GMT
What theme are you using? One of the themes that utilizes the smooth engine?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:01 GMT
Yes. I use the latest SmoothGnome.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:03 GMT
Aha, this is really another issue then, unfortunately it's not so easy to be solved. I tried on three different systems->
- buildbox
- lappie
- and my messy mainbox with testing and selfcompiled stuff
and there is no way to reproduce it here. I know that inkscape has issues with it GC, and it reads it's config from the ENVs. Do you have costumized ENVs? maybe? can you post the output of printenv, please? But it's just a very wild guess ...
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:05 GMT
I will do it later, as my laptop is turned off atm. However, I must say that the previous version of Inkscape was working just fine, and this version is supposed to simply be a bug-fixed release, so it doesn't make much sense to not work.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:06 GMT
There's a bug in gtk-engines 2.6.0 that causes many programs to crash. Anjuta will crash on your system too. The updated gtk-engines-2.6.1 fixes the problem, but the maintainer didn't get to it yet.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:19 GMT
Eugenia, if you switch gtk-theme to a non smooth based theme such as thinice, can you start inkscape then?
Comment by Bob (Cotton) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:19 GMT
After displaying a dialogue box that says "One or more extensions failed to load", inkscape briefly starts then crashes.

This was under XFCE4.2 after a restart of X.

The command line for both root and normal users gave:

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.
Segmentation fault

Interestingly, this behaviour did not occur under the Fluxbox WM started on another virtual terminal, although on the first run under Fluxbox, the following message was shown:
gtkspell error aspell error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"

However, after closing the Fluxbox instance, returning to XFCE4.2 and running inkscape, it just worked; no error messages reported!
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:23 GMT
Bob, I guess you have a smooth theme activated in xfce4 which has it's own gtk configuration, when you run in fluxbox, gtk apps fall back to standard .gtk2_themerc in ~, which can be changed with gtk-theme-switch2 package btw.
But this is prolly the reason why it crashes in fxce4 and not in flux

EDIT:
the aspell error is prolly related to the fact that you have aspell installed but no dictionary. My guess is that pacman -S aspell-en will suit your needs :)
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:28 GMT
Yes, changing the theme makes Inkscape work. Also, wnck-applet crashes sometimes when reverting to smoothgnome from another theme.

Please provide a fixed gtk-theme-engines soon.

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