Cannot import bitmaps (tried jpeg and png)

[Alex Valavanis]

Forwarded from Debian

Reported by: Sylvain Joyeux <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:45:07 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version inkscape/0.48.3.1-1

Package: inkscape
Version: 0.48.3.1-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Trying to import either a PNG or Jpeg in Inkscape, using both the command line
and File>Import leads to an error message box saying "Failed to load the
requested file flavors.png" and a lot of error messages on the console of the
form:

  (inkscape:13982): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_loader_write: assertion
  `priv->closed == FALSE' failed

Googling it a bit, it seems to be a rare issue that happened on Windows and that
still affects versions > 0.48.1. However, I tried installing inkscape from
stable (0.47) and the issue was still there. This is why I wonder whether this
is an inkscape issue at all, or a bad interaction between inkscape and
gdk-pixbuf (or another library)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1
ii libaspell15 0.60.7~20110707-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libatkmm-1.6-1 2.22.6-1
ii libc6 2.13-32
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-1
ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.10.0-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-3
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1
ii libgc1c2 1:7.1-8
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-7
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.2-1
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.32.0-1
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.4-1
ii libgomp1 4.7.0-7
ii libgsl0ldbl 1.15+dfsg-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-1
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.24.2-1
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1
ii liblcms1 1.19.dfsg-1+b2
ii libmagick++5 8:6.7.4.0-5
ii libmagickcore5 8:6.7.4.0-5
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libpangomm-1.4-1 2.28.4-1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1
ii libpoppler-glib6 0.16.7-3
ii libpoppler13 0.16.7-3
ii libpopt0 1.16-4
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-7
ii libwpd-0.9-9 0.9.4-3
ii libwpg-0.2-2 0.2.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.99.901-2
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-9
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-11
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1

Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-1
ii imagemagick 8:6.7.4.0-5
ii libwmf-bin 0.2.8.4-10
ii perlmagick <none>
ii pstoedit 3.60-2+b1

Versions of packages inkscape suggests:
pn dia | dia-gnome <none>
pn libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.24.4-1
pn libsvg-perl <none>
pn libxml-xql-perl <none>
pn python 2.7.2-10
pn python-lxml 2.3.2-1
pn python-numpy 1:1.6.1-8
pn python-uniconvertor <none>
pn ruby 4.8
pn ruby1.8 [ruby] 1.8.7.358-2
pn skencil <none>

-- no debconf information

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Ubuntu 11.04, Inkscape trunk revision 11347 and 0.48.x branch revision 9898.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Not reproduced on OS X 10.7.3 (64bit) with Inkscape 0.48.2, 0.48.3.1 and 0.48+devel r11346
- Gtk2/X11 2.24.10, gdk-pixbuf 2.24.1, glib 2.32.2
- Gtk2/Quartz 2.24.10, gdk-pixbuf 2.26.1, glib 2.32.2

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

According to the Debian bug report, it fails with libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 (current stable version) but:
"The problem vanishes if I downgrade libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 to 2.23.0-1"

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Crunchbang Waldorf (based on Debian Wheezy), Inkscape 0.48.3.1 and trunk revision 12397.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

 @Sylvain - Are you still affected by that bug?
If our tests are correct, it could be due to a bug in libgdk-pixbuf, and thus it's probably fixed in recent versions (the current Debian package for Jessie is libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u4). Could you please confirm?

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

As this has not been able to be reproduced for many years now, this bug will be closed. If you still are having this problem, please open a new bug with specific details. Thank you!