Inkscape

Inkscape crashes when opening some SVG files

Bug #1769394 reported by Thee on 2018-05-05

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned	Inkscape 0.92.5 "0.92.5"

Bug Description

Simpler SVG files seem to open fine, but larger, more complex ones (I'm guessing that's the trigger) crash Inkscape. It worked however on the previous version of Inkscape. The file that I'm having problem with is 12,5MB large. I think the file has some embedded images in it, maybe that's what is triggering the crash.

Version: Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)
OS: Fedora 28
Crash report: https://pastebin.com/UiACJHv6

Sorry, I can't post the SVG file for personal reasons.

Crash report:
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$ inkscape
/usr/include/c++/8/bits/stl_vector.h:950: std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::const_reference std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::operator[](std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::size_type) const [with _Tp = Inkscape::Text::Layout::Character; _Alloc = std::allocator<Inkscape::Text::Layout::Character>; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::const_reference = const Inkscape::Text::Layout::Character&; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion '__builtin_expect(__n < this->size(), true)' failed.

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Aborted (core dumped)

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote on 2018-05-06:

It seems to have to do with the text in the file.

Would it be possible to manually edit the SVG file, keeping all the texts intact, but removing other things, then testing if this is still crashing Inkscape and then sharing the file?

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote on 2018-05-06:

Forgot: could you please attach the crash log directly to the report?

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Thee (thee3) wrote on 2018-05-06:

File that crashes Inkscape Edit (787.1 KiB, image/svg+xml)

I've found another SVG file that causes the same crash, this one is not large but it has a lot of text in it (in German), so you might be right that the text is the cause of this crash.

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote on 2018-05-06:

Thanks for sharing, Thee.

I don't currently have a clean 0.92.3 installed on my system. With 0.92.x (a couple of commits more than 0.92.3, but not many, and - as far as I can see - none related to text + crashes), I cannot reproduce the crash on Linux Mint 18.3, Xfce.

Differences between our systems could be in the Inkscape preferences, the installed libraries, or the fonts... or something else that I don't know about.

I hope that someone who is knowledgeable about Inkscape's internal text handling can take this from here.

The file has been created in Inkscape 0.92.2 - with that version, it didn't crash?

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Thee (thee3) wrote on 2018-05-06:

Yes, it was created in the previous version "0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06)", and it did not crash at any point of use. After the Fedora upgrade 27 > 28, Inkscape got updated too and these particular files started crashing Inkscape. Other files that I've tested seem to work fine.

Thanks for the reply.

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Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote on 2018-05-06:

- crash not reproduced on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)

I get quite a few missing link messages of the type shown below, but otherwise no crash.

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** (inkscape.exe:10392): WARNING **: <image xlink:href="source/getchen2-col.jpg"> did not resolve to a valid image file (base dir is C:\Windows\Temp), now trying sodipodi:absref="/home/thee/Pictures/faust deutsch modern dialog whatsup/source/getchen2-col.jpg"

** (inkscape.exe:10392): WARNING **: <image xlink:href="source/faust-bw.jpg"> did not resolve to a valid image file (base dir is C:\Windows\Temp), now trying sodipodi:absref="/home/thee/Pictures/faust deutsch modern dialog whatsup/source/faust-bw.jpg"

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote on 2018-05-07:

Fedora sure seems to have a problem with multiline texts. There are several reports that describe similar issues with text on Fedora 28.

What's different on Fedora 28?...

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Thee (thee3) wrote on 2018-05-08:

You are right. I opened a new document, used the Text tool and entered some text, after I hit Enter for a new line, Inkscape crashed.

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote on 2018-05-08:

Related bug report in Fedora:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575842

Related bug reports in Inkscape:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1769662
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1768958
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1769394 (this one)

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Thee (thee3) wrote on 2018-05-24:

#10

I have found a possible workaround: when you make a textbox (hold text tool and drag) and then type and hit enter, Inkscape does not crash.

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Nathan Lee (nathan.lee) wrote on 2019-04-22:

#11

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1768958/comments/23

Closing as testing shows this has been fixed in 1.0alpha. Note version 0.92.4 in Fedora 28 and 29 (from dnf) has no problem opening this file (perhaps Fix Released is more appropriate); however, I am unsure if a commit was actually added to fix it in 0.92.x.