Error on printing [SOLVED]

[Jorge Cacho]

Hi,

When I try to print any file to my printer or to a pdf file, or when I try to see "print preview" Inkscape crashes always and it always shows this error (in spanish):

"Inkscape ha encontrado un error interno y se cerrará.
Las copias de seguridad automáticas se realizaron en los siguientes lugares:
        /home/jorgecacho/Documento nuevo 1.2010_09_10_14_00_06.0.svg"

Inkscape: 0.48
OS: Ubuntu 10.04

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Do you have an old devel version of cairo installed?

Most likely same issue as Bug #594144 in Inkscape: “Internal error when printing using Cairo snapshot 1.9.x”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/594144>

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

I have cairo dock installed, version 2.1.3-10.lucid, which it seems to be the newest one.

Who can I see the "devel version"?

Thanks

       Jorge

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

Sorry for the confussion (I have realizaerd now what is cairo-devel)

I have 1.8.8 installed but how can update it?

            Jorge

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Inkscape printing normally works fine with all stable versions of cairo (including 1.8.8 and 1.8.10) and with cairo devel >= 1.9.12, so the problem on your system must be different. Can you please launch Inkscape from a terminal, reproduced the crash and paste inkscape's console messages here?

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

(inkscape:370): gtkmm-WARNING **: gtkmm: Attempt to call Gtk::manage() on a Gtk::Window, but a Gtk::Window has no parent container to manage its lifetime.

inkscape: /build/buildd/cairo-1.9.6/src/cairo-surface.c:365: _cairo_surface_begin_modification: Afirmación «! surface->finished» fallida.

Emergency save activated!

Emergency save document locations:
  /home/jorgecacho/Documento nuevo 1.2010_09_10_15_41_45.0.svg
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.
Cancelado

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

Just in case, I have:

python-cairo: 1.8.8
libcairo2-dev : 1.9.6

Do I need to update any of that?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Jorge Cacho wrote:
> inkscape: /build/buildd/cairo-1.9.6/src/cairo-surface.c:365: _cairo_surface_begin_modification: Afirmación «! surface->finished» fallida.

This report is a duplicate of bug #594144 in Inkscape which in turn is a duplicate of bug #600622 in cairo (Ubuntu).

Jorge Cacho wrote:
> python-cairo: 1.8.8

Not relevant for Inkscape

> libcairo2-dev : 1.9.6

This devel version of the cairo libs causes Inkscape to crash, to print from Inkscape without crash you need to either update to a cairo-devel version >= 1.9.12 or install the stable cairo libs (1.8.8, 1.8.10 or the just released 1.10.0) instead.

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

The issue is that on Synaptic I only see libcairo2-dev 1.9.6 .... how can I update? Do I need to add more repos?

Thanks!!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Where did you install Inkscape 0.48 from? AFAIK it is not yet officially distributed on Ubuntu...

> The issue is that on Synaptic I only see libcairo2-dev 1.9.6
I'm sorry, I don't know - that's not an Inkscape issue (and I'm not using Ubuntu myself).

@JazzyNico - do you know more about how to install a stable cairo version or a newer devel version on Ubuntu 10.04?

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

I installed 0.48 from ppa:ricotz/ppa

Anyway I have uninstalled Inkscape 0.48, deleted pa:ricotz/ppa and installed again Inkscape 0.47 from official Ubuntu repo and the printing issue still appears.

I'd be very gratefull if you could help me the fix this.

THANKS

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@~suv - the current stable libcairo2-dev version is 1.8.10-2ubuntu1.
I'm using the default Ubuntu server, with no backports or experimental Ubuntu packages.

Jorge> Do I need to add more repos?
No, it's the opposite: you should remove the repo where the unstable libcairo2-dev version comes from.

Regards.

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

Thanks!

I have solved it by uninstalling libcairo2 and libcairo2-dev and installing libcairo2 (v 1.8.10) and libcairo2-dev (v 1.8.10):

sudo apt-get install libcairo2=1.8.10-2ubuntu1
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev=1.8.10-2ubuntu1

THANKS for all your help!

            Jorge

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@JazzyNico - thx for helping out ;)
@Jorge - thx for reporting back :)

Linking as duplicate to bug #594144 in Inkscape: “Internal error when printing using Cairo snapshot 1.9.x”. Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

… or rather, linking as duplicate to bug #600622 in cairo (Ubuntu).
(Launchpad still has too limited possibilities for bug relationships)

[Jorge Cacho (jorge-cacho-h)]

Just in case somebody needs this info: libcairo2-dev 1.9.6 was installed from this repository:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu

(it was used to update Gimp)