Comment 2 for bug 612360

It's over 2 years later now. In the meantime, the system was upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Apr 4 2010).

But it still crashes by just starting and clicking "Fill&Stroke", logged in using the same uid as in the initial bug report. Detailed error messages are below. On another system, Linux Mint 11, Inkscape 0.48.1 r9760 (Mar 22 2011) this does not happen, although I do get frequent crashes when I use it.

At startup, it dumps this a few hundred times on the console:

    (inkscape:18678): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed

After clicking Fill&Stroke:

** (inkscape:18678): WARNING **: GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL!
** (inkscape:18678): WARNING **: SPObject::updateDisplay(SPCtx *ctx, unsigned int flags) : throw in ((SPObjectClass *) G_OBJECT_GET_CLASS(this))->update(this, ctx, flags);

This is repeated a few times, and then:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what(): std::bad_alloc

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** (inkscape:18678): WARNING **: GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL!

terminate called recursively