As stated in the initial bug description, this is absolutely a fresh install: "Uninstalled Inkscape entirely (made sure "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\" does not exist)" I did this as a first step since I understand a corrupt installation is a likely culprit and did not want to waste your time. There *may* be some incompleteness going on as I did not see any "import hashlib" line in the command output. I ran it -v -v and got this: ... import atexit # precompiled from C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/atexit.pyc ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name) File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name) ValueError: unsupported hash type md5 # trying _sha.pyd # trying _sha.py # trying _sha.pyw # trying _sha.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_sha.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_sha.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_sha.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_sha.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_sha.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_sha.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_sha.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_sha.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_sha.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_sha.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_sha.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_sha.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/_sha.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/_sha.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/_sha.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/_sha.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\site-packages/_sha.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\site-packages/_sha.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\site-packages/_sha.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\site-packages/_sha.pyc ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name) File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name) ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1 # trying _sha256.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\site-packages/_sha512.pyc ERROR:root:code for hash sha512 was not found. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name) File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name) ValueError: unsupported hash type sha512 # trying _hashlib.pyd # trying _hashlib.py # trying _hashlib.pyw # trying _hashlib.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_hashlib.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_hashlib.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_hashlib.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7/_hashlib.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_hashlib.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_hashlib.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_hashlib.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\plat-win32/_hashlib.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_hashlib.pyd # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_hashlib.py # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_hashlib.pyw # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-tk/_hashlib.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/_hashlib.pyd ******* # trying binascii.pyd # trying binascii.py # trying binascii.pyw # trying binascii.pyc # trying C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/binascii.pyd import binascii # dynamically loaded from C:\Program Files\Inkscape\lib\python2.7\lib-dynload/binascii.pyd # trying struct.pyd ... It loads atexit OK, shows details about the hashes, then goes on to binascii Yes, \lib\python2.7\lib-dynload\_hashlib.pyd does exist: see the ******* line above. Is something being loaded out of order?