Comment 6 for bug 224020

Hey Igor Fedorow,

This really helps! Thanks very much!

Blessings,
Rocky

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Igor Fedorow <email address hidden> wrote:

> a possible solution/workaround might be to uninstall all fonts except
> some "basic" fonts, and try again. running inkscape on three different
> machines with gentoo, i also had it crash after any action (on all
> machines) with the same
>
> GLib-CRITICAL **: g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed"
>
> error message. i had a large collection of custom truetype-fonts
> installed on all machines. once i removed them, the error went away
> (apart from MUCH faster startup times). there must have been at least
> one font that caused the glib-error.
>
> hope this helps!
>
> --
> Crash upon any action
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224020
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> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I'm using Inkscape with Ubuntu 8.0.4(hardy). The inkscape version is 0.46.
> After opening the inkscape and as soon as I do anything the inkscape crashed
> with the error massage in terminal saying"(inkscape:7386): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed". I run the gdb and get the
> below out put:
>
> y-laptop:~$ which inkscape | gdb
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
> (gdb) Hangup detected on fd 0
> error detected on stdin
>