Inkscape Crashes in Inkscape::Preferences::_loadDefaults

[Radomír Černoch]

Binary package hint: inkscape

After starting "inkscape", the only thing which happens is the following output to the console:

Segmentation fault

I have encountered this bug only on 64-bit Ubuntu. My other computer with Ubuntu 10.04 under similar configuration, but 32-bit architecture, runs inkscape without any problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: inkscape 0.47.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 2 18:39:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Radomir,

Please could you try to collect a backtrace as described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace

The developers will need to see this information to investigate this further. Many thanks.

[Radomír Černoch (radomir-cernoch)]

Dear Alex,

the backtrace is uploaded in post #3.

Yours,
Radek

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Thanks Radek. The backtrace looks pretty complete. Summary copied as follows:

#0 0x00007ffff1132c06 in GC_malloc (bytes=256) at thread_local_alloc.c:176
#1 0x000000000071bc9f in Inkscape::GC::Core::malloc (doc=0x1116320, default_ns=0x0) at ./gc-core.h:74
#2 operator new (doc=0x1116320, default_ns=0x0) at ./gc-core.h:148
#3 Inkscape::GC::Managed<(Inkscape::GC::ScanPolicy)0, (Inkscape::GC::CollectionPolicy)0>::operator new (doc=0x1116320, default_ns=0x0) at ./gc-managed.h:35
#4 sp_repr_do_read (doc=0x1116320, default_ns=0x0) at xml/repr-io.cpp:414
#5 0x000000000071bf24 in sp_repr_read_mem (buffer=<value optimized out>, length=16723, default_ns=0x0) at xml/repr-io.cpp:328
#6 0x000000000047f065 in Inkscape::Preferences::_loadDefaults (this=0x110d880) at preferences.cpp:119
#7 0x000000000048036c in Preferences (this=0x110d880) at preferences.cpp:97
#8 0x00000000006e0bc0 in Inkscape::Preferences::get () at ./preferences.h:434
#9 injectCustomSize () at widgets/icon.cpp:672
#10 0x00000000006e1105 in sp_icon_get_phys_size (size=-134557312) at widgets/icon.cpp:720
#11 0x00000000004537fd in sp_main_gui (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe888) at main.cpp:930
#12 0x0000000000452db9 in main (argc=1, argv=<value optimized out>) at main.cpp:685

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Radomir,

inkscape_0.48.0-1ubuntu1 is now available for Ubuntu. Please could you try it, and let us know if you still experience this bug?

[Radomír Černoch (radomir-cernoch)]

Hi Alex,

OK, where can I find it?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Radomir,

Sorry about the slow response. You'll automatically get inkscape_0.48.0-1ubuntu1 if you upgrade your system to the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat). The Beta version is now available if you'd like to do that.

Alternatively, you could manually download the new Inkscape package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/inkscape (the links are at the bottom of the page.)

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Radek,

Did you get a chance to try the new package yet?

Thanks,

Alex

[Radomír Černoch (radomir-cernoch)]

Yes, I have tried by upgrading to 10.10, but the error is still there.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

OK, thanks for letting us know.

@upstream - any suggestions about this one?

[Alan Robertson (alanr-unix)]

I have a similar problem - on 64-bit Ubuntu Inkscape 0.48.0 r9654 - when I start Inkscape, it starts, but then whenever I select Document Properties - it crashes immediately.

Since the first thing I always do is set up the page size and orientation, this means I can do very little with it.

Let me know if you want me to create a separate bug, or leave it with this one.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@Alan Robertson - please see bug #658055 (it is fixed for Inkscape in 0.48.1)

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Is this still valid for 0.91?

[Inkescaper (stephane-lecolier)]

Hello,

I have the same issue by using Inkscape 0.92.2 from command line.

Segmentation fault message appears just after typing command line.

It concerns Windows deliveries: 32 & 64 bits (0.92.2 build 5c3e80d - 2017-08-06)

However Inkscape is starting correctly by using GUI interface.

Consider this matter with highest priority as it prevent us to switch to this release.

Best Regards,

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

@Inkescaper: Hi there, do you still have this issue with Inkscape 0.92.4? If so, could you provide a backtrace of the error shown using gdb?

Also try renaming the preferences file and then attempting to start Inkscape again. Thanks!

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

From the backtrace in comment #5, this is crashing in sp_repr_do_read while reading in the preferences file.

The backtrace appears to be crashing during the garbage collection setup for Inkscape::XML::SimpleDocument, in the call to GC_malloc(256).

I think we'd need to know more specific steps to reproduce this. A copy of a preferences file on a system experiencing this specific crash (i.e. that shows the same gdb backtrace as in #5) would be useful.

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Closing as there has been no response for over 60 days. If you still have a similar problem with the latest version of Inkscape, please report it on our new bug tracker: https://inkscape.org/report. Thank you!

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

(following upstream)