crash using Generate From Path extension

[Alex Valavanis]

From: redomen <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: inkscape: crash using Generate From Path extension
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:52:36 -0700
Package: inkscape
Version: 0.48.3.1-1.3
Severity: normal

If I create two objects, select them and then use "Extensions-> Generate from path-> Pattern along Path" and hit apply then
inkscape crashes every time with:

(inkscape:32651): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed

** (inkscape:32651): WARNING **: Invalid URI

** (inkscape:32651): WARNING **: Error: Could not open file '/tmp/ink_ext_XXXXXX.svg7K4BTW' with VFS

(inkscape:32651): glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: Open failed

Trace/breakpoint trap

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.6.7a (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1
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 2.13-38
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3
ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.10.0-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgc1c2 1:7.1-9.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.32.1-1
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.4-1
ii libgomp1 4.7.2-5
ii libgsl0ldbl 1.15+dfsg.2-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.24.2-1
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1
ii liblcms1 1.19.dfsg-1.2
ii libmagick++5 8:6.7.7.10-5
ii libmagickcore5 8:6.7.7.10-5
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-glib8 0.18.4-5
ii libpoppler19 0.18.4-5
ii libpopt0 1.16-7
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii libwpd-0.9-9 0.9.4-3
ii libwpg-0.2-2 0.2.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-14
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-1
ii imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10-5
ii libwmf-bin 0.2.8.4-10.3
ii perlmagick 8:6.7.7.10-5
ii pstoedit 3.60-2+b1

Versions of packages inkscape suggests:
ii dia 0.97.2-8
ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.24.4-1
pn libsvg-perl <none>
pn libxml-xql-perl <none>
ii python 2.7.3-4
ii python-lxml 2.3.2-1
ii python-numpy 1:1.6.2-1
pn python-uniconvertor <none>
ii ruby1.8 [ruby] 1.8.7.358-6
pn skencil <none>

-- no debconf information

[su_v (suv-lp)]

AFAICT the console messages indicate a misconfigured gnome-vfs on the local system, see e.g.
- Bug #958545 “OSX : Crash using extensions”
- Bug #829940 “Inkscape will not open SVG files”

Proposing to link as duplicate to bug #829940.