Referencer crashs on startup due to unrecognized SVG image

[dukat]

I've installed Referencer on my Kubuntu 7.10 system, with the latest updates applied

On every start I get the following error:

Exception: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/referencer/referencer.svg'

The operation underway was: "Terminating due to unhandled exception"

The image lockced fine, I also tried to replace it with the standard SVG form the referencer source code - still the same error.

[John S (jcspray)]

This is a library issue on kubuntu that I vaguely recall seeing before.
On my system I have libsvg1 and librsvg2-2 installed, do you?

John

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, dukat wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I've installed Referencer on my Kubuntu 7.10 system, with the latest
> updates applied
>
> On every start I get the following error:
>
> Exception: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/referencer/referencer.svg'
>
> The operation underway was: "Terminating due to unhandled exception"
>
>
> The image lockced fine, I also tried to replace it with the standard SVG form the referencer source code - still the same error.
>
> ** Affects: referencer
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Referencer crashs on startup with due to unrecognized SVG image
> + Referencer crashs on startup due to unrecognized SVG image
>
> --
> Referencer crashs on startup due to unrecognized SVG image
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177118
> You received this bug notification because you are the bug contact for
> Referencer.
>

[dukat (dukat)]

I have both libraries installed, so this doesn't seem to be the problem.

[John S (jcspray)]

You should also have librsvg2-common... at least it *ought* to be a dep of librsvg2-2.

Can you install the eog package and try viewing the svg file with that? Might also be interesting to see what dependencies eog pulls in when you install it.

[Marc Ermshaus (mermshaus)]

After installing the eog package (called "Image Viewer" in Adept), Referencer works fine under Kubuntu 7.10.

[dukat (dukat)]

It seems that Referencer didn't have the dependency on librsvg2-common. After pulling this manually (without installing eog) Referencer works as it should.

[John S (jcspray)]

Added librsvg-2 to list of deps.