gtkspell/enchant error crashes inkscape

[Kyle Skrinak]

Re: Inkscape 0.48.1 r9760 (Apr 13 2011) (installed via MacPorts)
If I can reproduce this crash I'll append the steps. As for now, after a period of inactivity (± 5 mins) I returned to computer where inkscape had crashed and left this error:

gtkspell error: enchant error for language: en_US.UTF-8

Emergency save activated!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Do you have aspell and at least one dict for aspell installed? (Inkscape uses aspell for the built-in spell checker).

(Never saw this error with Inkscape 0.48.0 and 0.48.1 installed via MacPorts on Mac OS X Leopard 1.5.8 (i386))

[su_v (suv-lp)]

See also the notes from the dependencies of enchant (in MacPorts):
$ port notes aspell hunspell

[Kyle Skrinak (kyle-skrinakcreative)]

Yes, installing aspell + dictionary enabled my ability to select a dictionary from the Preferences > Spellcheck menu. (Before, no drop down options were available.) Thanks!

Perhaps I should report this to MacPorts? But why does the error fault gtkspell?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

As far as I can tell, the error from enchant (when initialization fails) is handled in Inkscape [1] and should not have been the cause of the crash. Did you not receive any other error messages? Bug #672111 and bug #629363 for example are known issues on 64bit macs, and there are many other not-platform related causes that could trigger a crash - though I'm not aware of one that happens after leaving Inkscape running idle in the background for several minutes.

Could you check if a crash report for inkscape was created in '~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports' (on Snow Leopard) or '~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter' (on Leopard), and if there is one with a current date and time stamp, attach it here to this report?

> Perhaps I should report this to MacPorts?

MacPorts already tells you to install at least one dictionary. The notes are displayed when installing gtkspell2 (which is a dependency of inkscape, and itself depends on enchant, which again pulls in hunspell and aspell).

[1] <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/RELEASE_0_48_BRANCH/view/head:/src/dialogs/text-edit.cpp#L390>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I could be wrong about Inkscape catching the error from enchant/gtkspell though, needs further investigation…

[Kyle Skrinak (kyle-skrinakcreative)]

My install continued to crash more. I did a ports list and found two inkscape installations (I wrongly presumed that I had the mac binary installed, wrongly, both were a ports-installed binary) Removing the "second" install and solved all erratic behavior so far.

Much thanks!

[Kyle Skrinak (kyle-skrinakcreative)]

Crash report from second IS crash

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> sp_stroke_style_line_update(Gtk::Container*, Inkscape::Selection*)

That's the same as previously mentioned bug #672111 and bug #629363 (no fix or workaround know so far). The problem seems related to building & running Inkscape on 64bit systems (not limited to Mac OS X).

Linking as duplicate to bug #629363 - please add a comment here and revert the duplicate state if you don't agree and think these are different issues.

[Pander (pander)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1049548

When that is fixed, this might be fixed too.