Whenever I tried to save my work, Inkscape crashes

[Fahad]

I use Kubuntu 12.04 and Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886. Whenever I try to print or save my work, inkscape keeps crashing. I tried to use gdb to find what goes wrong but what I got is this:

Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb0e1cb40 (LWP 9237)]
[New Thread 0xb04ffb40 (LWP 9238)]
[Thread 0xb0e1cb40 (LWP 9237) exited]
[New Thread 0xb0e1cb40 (LWP 9241)]
[New Thread 0xaf870b40 (LWP 9242)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000005 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000005 in ?? ()

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Based on the description, seems similar to
- Bug #1063916 “Crashes on saving”

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Does it crash no matter which file format you choose for saving?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> I use Kubuntu 12.04 and Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886

A different possibly related report (closed for Inkscape because triggered by an issue of a gtk theme engine used under KDE):
Bug #1049179 “Inkscape crashes when "Save as" or "Save a copy..." is pressed”

[Fahad (fahad-alsaidi)]

Does it crash no matter which file format you choose for saving?

Yes.

I tried what suggested in Bug #1049179 but no thing change. I even changed the gtk theme under KDE.

[Fahad (fahad-alsaidi)]

I used trunk version and Inkscape does not crash again.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@Fahad - In order to close the report properly, could you please tell us if you tested both Inkscape versions on the same operating system, and confirm it crashes with the official (0.48.3.1) package but not with the trunk version? Thanks.

[Fahad (fahad-alsaidi)]

@jazzynico Now i am using netrunner 13.10 (based on kubuntu 13.10) and Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939. I don't face this problem anymore.

What I suspect the cause of this problem is that I was using a new version of gime 2.8 and I installed a new version of libpoppler which differs form the official version that comes with 0.48.3.1. I don't remember well but when I downgraded libpoppler the problem was fixed.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@Fahad - Thanks for reporting back.
Since the issue was not due to Inkscape (or indirectly), I'm closing the report Invalid for the Inkscape project.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

closing for ubuntu as well, as something else seemed to have fixed it...