inkscape bzr crash at start with Inkscape::FontLister::selection_update

[Popolon]

Inkscape (but not inkview) crash at start.

Backtrace from GDB indicate a problem with Inkscape::FontLister::selection_update

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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb29fe2b0 (LWP 31191)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x002f7758 in Inkscape::FontLister::selection_update() ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x002f7758 in Inkscape::FontLister::selection_update() ()
#1 0x00414908 in sp_text_toolbox_selection_changed(Inkscape::Selection*, _GObject*, bool) ()
#2 0x0041863c in sp_text_toolbox_prep(SPDesktop*, _GtkActionGroup*, _GObject*) ()
#3 0x0041dbdc in setup_aux_toolbox(_GtkWidget*, SPDesktop*) ()
#4 0x0041a5ec in Inkscape::UI::ToolboxFactory::setToolboxDesktop(_GtkWidget*, SPDesktop*) ()
#5 0x004515d0 in Inkscape::UI::UXManagerImpl::connectToDesktop(std::vector<_GtkWidget*, std::allocator<_GtkWidget*> > const&, SPDesktop*) ()
#6 0x003b0274 in SPDesktopWidget::createInstance(SPNamedView*) ()
#7 0x003b0358 in sp_desktop_widget_new(SPNamedView*) ()
#8 0x000b83b4 in sp_file_new(std::string const&) ()
#9 0x000b87c0 in sp_file_new_default() ()
#10 0x000722f8 in sp_main_gui(int, char const**) ()
#11 0xb556327c in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#12 0x00070cb4 in _start ()
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Some precision, that(s on Archlinux ARM. I encounter the problem on a inkscape bzr version I compiled myself. It worked really fine on an allwinner A20 SoC, but crashed this week, probably after some packages update or added. I tried to build more recent bzr version of inkscape, I encounter the same crash. Works fine with stable version.

3 Packages I made are available here with PKGBUILD file :

http://popolon.org/depots/ArchlinuxARM/

It should work on any Archlinux ARM version for ARMv7h

Could it be linked to installed fonts ? How to debug further, as plateform is still uncommon and not easy to install from everyone.

Here the list of packages containing the word font:
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font-misc-ethiopic 1.0.3-1
fontconfig 2.11.1-1
fontsproto 2.1.3-1
gsfonts 20130917-1
libfontenc 1.1.2-1
libxfont 1.5.0-1
ttf-freefont 20120503-3
xorg-font-util 1.3.0-2
xorg-font-utils 7.6-4
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-5
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.1-3
xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-2
xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.1-1
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glib/gtk/popler version installed:
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gtk2 2.24.25-1
gtk3 3.14.4-2
gtkmm 2.24.4-1
pygtk 2.24.0-5
glib2 2.42.0-1
glibmm 2.42.0-1
poppler-glib 0.26.5-1
poppler 0.26.5-1
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[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Crunchbang Waldorf, Inkscape trunk revision 13671. Almost the same font packages here (except font-misc-ethiopic, xorg-fonts-misc and a couple of others, not available -or not with the same name- on Debian stable), but older versions.

Unfortunately I have no ARM or Archlinux computer that I could use to reproduce the crash. It would be interesting to see exactly which packages changed recently on your system (unfortunately http://archlinuxarm.org/packages doesn't accept date sorting).

[Rady (peter-morawetz)]

I have the exact same behaviour. Inscape crashes when scrolling through the font list

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@Rady - It seems your bug is not the one encountered by Popolon. Please see Bug #1077078 "Inkscape crash on font change" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1077078) instead.