Crash on opening a recent document

[Skinner]

I follow the directions in Inkscape Tutorial #2: Text and Simple Styling. When the work is finished, I save the document and close Inkscape. After I launch the program again and try to open this document (or even single-click on it within the Select Files To Open window), Inkscape crashes.
  Operating system: Windows XP SP 2
  Inkscape version: 0.47 pre1

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Could you attach the svg file that crashes Inkscape?

[Skinner (skirmish)]

OK, here it is.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 9.04, Inkscape rev. 22095.
Backtrace attached.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Confirmed with Inkscape 0.46+devel r22086 on OS X 10.5.8: Inkscape already dies when trying to create a thumbnail preview in the file chooser (file open dialog).

console messages:

inkscape-bin(4222,0xa0481720) malloc: *** mmap(size=1207959552) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what(): St9bad_alloc

Emergency save activated!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I had recently created a similar file (created when testing a text tutorial at <http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/04/inkscape-tutorial-2-text-and-simple.html>). FireFox, Safari and Batik render it (different than it looked in Inkscape, but) without crash.

   inkscape:version="0.47pre1 r21720"

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

in Windows XP I get the crash message:

** (inkscape.exe:2556): WARNING **: SPObject::updateDisplay(SPCtx *ctx, unsigned int flags) : throw in ((SPObjectClass *) G_OBJECT_GET_CLASS(this))->update(this, ctx, flags);
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what(): std::bad_alloc

It looks as though the crash is related to the sequence in which svg elements are declared. The original file Ex.svg had the sequence : path, path, path, text. (where the paths all have an xlink:href reference to the text before it is declared.)

In the attached file Ex_reverse.svg I changed the sequence to : text, path, path, path. This file does not crash my Inkscape. However, the appearance of this image is not as interesting as the original Ex.svg when it was viewed in IE8.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Both files crash Inkscape 0.46-2 on OS X 10.5.8 as well, when trying the open the containing directory in the GTK file chooser (Open file dialog), with preview disabled.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

attached is a modified version of text-effects-1.svg, which does not crash Inkscape 0.47pre1. I relocated the text element to be first in the file, before the path elements.