Inkscape crashes immediately after launch

[Alexander Mueller]

Inkscape crashes immediately after launch. This behavior is reproducible. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and properly installed XQuartz and re-booted afterwards and installed Inkscape, but still. I de-installed everything and installed again, same as before.

Crash dump attached.

Br,
Alexander

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Based on the backtrace in the crash report, it's the same issue as reported in
- Bug #623640 “inkscape 0.48 crashes on startup in colorprofile_get_system_profile_handle()”
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/623640>

Here are some known workarounds confirmed by other users:
a) temporarily install 0.47 and edit the preferences for 'Color Management > Display Adjustment' as described here:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/623640/comments/17>

b) You can also manually edit the preferences file (if you don't want to install 0.47):
1) in the Finder: use menu 'Go > Go to Folder…',
   enter "~/.config/inkscape" (without the quotes)
2) browse to "~/.config/inkscape" and open 'preferences.xml' in a plaintext editor (TextEdit, TextWrangler, …)
3) search for the string "from_display" and change the value from "0" to "1"
4) save (take care not to have a hidden *.txt suffix added)
5) launch Inkscape

or c) open Inkscape using 'Open with…' command of existing SVG file:
«instead of regression to 0.47 just launch inkscape selecting an svg file and use the "open with" command, the program opens, and you change the "Preferences/Color management/Retrieve profile from display" as needed.»

Please report back whether one of the workaround allowed you to successfully launch Inkscape 0.48.2 again (after changing the setting for the display profile), so that this report can be linked as duplicate to bug #623640.

[Alexander Mueller (fam0815)]

I used option a) to temporarily install 0.47 and changed the setting of the display profile. Now it works! THX

[Alexander Mueller (fam0815)]

I tried option a) and it works now. Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

Br,
Alexander

Am 16.02.2013 um 10:19 schrieb ~suv:

> Based on the backtrace in the crash report, it's the same issue as reported in
> - Bug #623640 “inkscape 0.48 crashes on startup in colorprofile_get_system_profile_handle()”
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/623640>
>
> Here are some known workarounds confirmed by other users:
> a) temporarily install 0.47 and edit the preferences for 'Color Management > Display Adjustment' as described here:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/623640/comments/17>
>
> b) You can also manually edit the preferences file (if you don't want to install 0.47):
> 1) in the Finder: use menu 'Go > Go to Folder…',
> enter "~/.config/inkscape" (without the quotes)
> 2) browse to "~/.config/inkscape" and open 'preferences.xml' in a plaintext editor (TextEdit, TextWrangler, …)
> 3) search for the string "from_display" and change the value from "0" to "1"
> 4) save (take care not to have a hidden *.txt suffix added)
> 5) launch Inkscape
>
> or c) open Inkscape using 'Open with…' command of existing SVG file:
> «instead of regression to 0.47 just launch inkscape selecting an svg file and use the "open with" command, the program opens, and you change the "Preferences/Color management/Retrieve profile from display" as needed.»
>
> Please report back whether one of the workaround allowed you to
> successfully launch Inkscape 0.48.2 again (after changing the setting
> for the display profile), so that this report can be linked as duplicate
> to bug #623640.
>
>
> ** Tags added: color crash osx
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1127052
>
> Title:
> Inkscape crashes immediately after launch
>
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Inkscape crashes immediately after launch. This behavior is
> reproducible. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and properly installed
> XQuartz and re-booted afterwards and installed Inkscape, but still. I
> de-installed everything and installed again, same as before.
>
> Crash dump attached.
>
> Br,
> Alexander
>
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[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thx for testing the known workarounds for this problem and reporting back - I'm glad to hear that one of them solved the current issue for you, too. Unfortunately, the bug itself hasn't been fixed yet (we haven't figured out how to reproduce it on systems never affected by it so far, which makes it difficult for any developer to further investigate and find a proper fix).

Linking as duplicate to bug #623640. Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues which need to be tracked separately.