Inkscape

  1. Bug #442308
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 442308

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Besides your defunct(?) MultiClutch InputManager (time to uninstall it? ;-) nothing unexpected in the log:

> 2009-10-07 12.17.01 [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[783] what : Failed to open 'inkscape_pasted_image_20091007_121701.png' for writing: Read-only file system

There are two bugs in your report that lead to the crash:

1) due to the clipboard issue with X11 every 'copy' command inside Inkscape actually creates a 'Bitmap Copy' which is stored externally as PNG and inserted as linked bitmap.

related report (+ duplicates): upstream XQuartz issue
Bug #307005 in Inkscape: “copy command always does bitmap copy”

2) Inkscape doesn't have permission to write the 'inkscape_pasted_image_xxx.png' to the default location (depending on Inkscape version and platform it's in $TMP, in $HOME or - on OS X - sometimes inside the application bundle 'Inkscape.app'). An unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) then causes the crash (terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::FileError'). There seem to be many different causes for this file error - maybe you have installed Inkscape as Admin and run it as User, or you run Inkscape from a write-protected medium/location.

related bug reports to ''Glib::FileError'':
Bug #211607 in Inkscape: “Crashes when attempting to use "Paste objects from clipboard..."”
Bug #272192 in Inkscape: “Clicking "Edit->Paste" causes an internal error”
Bug #308456 in Inkscape: “copy/paste crashes Inkscape”
Bug #328597 in Inkscape: “Inkscape crashes when copying and pasting picture from openoffice document”
Bug #381301 in Inkscape: “copy, paste, crash”
Bug #418832 in Inkscape: “Crashes after clipboard paste”

Since the XQuartz workaround described in the FAQ works to prevent the crash I mark this as duplicate of bug #307005. If you don't agree or the crash re-occurs please add a comment and revert the duplicate status.

(the bug reports about crashes caused by "Glib::FileError" when 'copy&paste'ing a bitmap need yet to be triaged and marked as duplicate of the first reported case…)