Holding 'ctrl' when drawing a line crashes Inkscape when a grid is enabled.

Bug #1587319 reported by Edd Barrett
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Expired
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

1) In "File->Document Properties" go the the "Grid" tab.
2) Add a grid. Leave the grid parameters at the default.
3) Go back to the canvas and select the line tool.
4) Left click and drag the line out whlst holding the control key.
5) If step 4 didn't cause a crash, repeat, until it does.

This is Inkscape-0.91 on OpenBSD.

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/inkscape

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00000d9e02bf489a in thrkill () at <stdin>:2
2 <stdin>: No such file or directory.
        in <stdin>
Current language: auto; currently asm
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000d9e02bf489a in thrkill () at <stdin>:2
#1 0x00000d9e02bd4309 in *_libc_abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:52
#2 0x00000d9ec22476e5 in _Unwind_Resume (exc=0xd9e1ff5a0d0) at unwind.inc:238
Die: DW_TAG_unspecified_type (abbrev = 118, offset = 114635991)
        has children: FALSE
        attributes:
                DW_AT_name (DW_FORM_strp) string: "decltype(nullptr)"
Dwarf Error: Cannot find type of die [in module /usr/local/bin/inkscape]

Revision history for this message
Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote :

not reproduced on Windows 7 (32 bit), Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Jan 30 2015)

could you attach the svg file you are using?

jazzynico (jazzynico)
tags: added: crash node-editing
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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to file a report!

Not reproduced on Xubuntu 16.04, Inkscape 0.91 and trunk rev. 14942.
How many loops in steps 4 and 5 does it take to reproduce the crash? I've tried about 10-20 times without any issue.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Inkscape because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in inkscape:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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