Changing fill color via bottom panel can crash Inkscape

Bug #488515 reported by toto
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Bug Description

System: Inkscape 0.47 r22583, built Nov 21 2009 on WindowsXP sp3 32 bit Russian
Steps to reproduce:
 1. Open inkscape
 2. Draw a rectangle or closed path, change its fill color by clicking on a palette
 3. Try to change its fill (or stroke) color: click on the color bar that is below palette and to the right from "Fill:" label, do not release mouse button, drag it somewhere, release mouse. Repeat several times (maybe 10-20, but most of time 3-5 is enough).
Result: Inkscape can:
 1. hang using 100% of processor
 2. silently exit
 3. display internal error and make emergency save
 4. display something like @GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:175: failed to allocate 16 bytes aborting..."
 5. display "memory cannot be read"

attached 6 backtraces.

Tags: color crash ui
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toto (gutsunaev) wrote :
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Even though the backtraces are different, the same crash when using color gestures on win32 (including the gmem.c error) is reported in bug #443964 “0.47pre3 win32 crash when adjusting color via gestures”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/443964>

Linking as duplicate to bug #443964. Please add a comment and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are separate issues.

tags: added: color crash ui
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