Inkscape crashes immediately on launching

[David Bridson]

Binary package hint: inkscape

Using up-to-date Kubuntu Karmic 64-bit with Inkscape 0.46-9ubuntu1, Inkscape crashes immediately on opening. If it's launched from the KDE menu, a message box appears:

"inkscape encountered an internal error and will now close"

If I launch inkscape from the command line, the following is printed to the terminal:

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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
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I don't see a dbg package in the repositories so I don't have any debug symbols, but here is a stack trace from gdb:

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gdb inkscape
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f27065637a0 (LWP 10253)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f27065637a0 (LWP 10253)]
0x00000000007ac329 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000007ac329 in ?? ()
#1 0x000000000075bde0 in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000006e1849 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000006e32d5 in ?? ()
#4 0x00007f2702666f77 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007f270264ad6c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007f270264b776 in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007f270264c2f5 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007f270264c44c in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00000000006e134a in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000457894 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000000457b96 in ?? ()
#12 0x000000000044f1bd in ?? ()
#13 0x000000000044f591 in ?? ()
#14 0x00007f26fec015e6 in __libc_start_main (main=0x44f220 <_ZN4Glib7ustring6appendEPKcm@plt+2552>, argc=1, ubp_av=0x7fffa9000928, init=0x977740, fini=<value optimized out>, rtld_fini=<value optimized out>,
    stack_end=0x7fffa9000918) at libc-start.c:220
#15 0x000000000044e869 in ?? ()
#16 0x00007fffa9000918 in ?? ()
#17 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#18 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#19 0x00007fffa9002572 in ?? ()
#20 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
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[Juan Sebastián Marulanda (juanchito2006)]

I also have this issue under GNOME, attaching GDB logs.

[Thomas E Jenkins (thomas-jenkins)]

This looks similar to #340257

[Thomas E Jenkins (thomas-jenkins)]

This bug is fixed in the pre-release package 0.47~pre0-0ubuntu1~9.10 found in the Inkscape Testers PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.testers/+archive/ppa

[Kenny Duffus (kduffus)]

yes the package in inkscape.testers ppa starts fine for me on karmic

thanks for pointing it out thomas

[Kenny Duffus (kduffus)]

0.47~pre0-0ubuntu1~9.10 now in karmic

[Marco Segreto (msmarc)]

The package in PPA don't have any PowerPC versions. Is there going to be a PPC fix because I still can't get inkscape to work.