i messed with the plugin so that i could get the PS file out. and have attached it.
when i run pstoedit independently of inkscape it still crashes. there seems to be no dbgsym package for pstoedit, so i built it from source, and tried to run it in GDB. i get the error
sam@oberon:/tmp/sam$ gdb /opt/pstoedit/bin/pstoedit
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /opt/pstoedit/bin/pstoedit...done.
(gdb) run -f plot-svg -dt -ssp eq.ps eq.svg
Starting program: /opt/pstoedit/bin/pstoedit -f plot-svg -dt -ssp eq.ps eq.svg
pstoedit: version 3.50 / DLL interface 108 (build Aug 22 2010 - release build - g++ 4.4.3) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2009 Wolfgang Glunz
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Cannot find new threads: generic error
i messed with the plugin so that i could get the PS file out. and have attached it.
when i run pstoedit independently of inkscape it still crashes. there seems to be no dbgsym package for pstoedit, so i built it from source, and tried to run it in GDB. i get the error
sam@oberon: /tmp/sam$ gdb /opt/pstoedit/ bin/pstoedit gnu.org/ licenses/ gpl.html> www.gnu. org/software/ gdb/bugs/>... bin/pstoedit. ..done. bin/pstoedit -f plot-svg -dt -ssp eq.ps eq.svg
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://
Reading symbols from /opt/pstoedit/
(gdb) run -f plot-svg -dt -ssp eq.ps eq.svg
Starting program: /opt/pstoedit/
pstoedit: version 3.50 / DLL interface 108 (build Aug 22 2010 - release build - g++ 4.4.3) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2009 Wolfgang Glunz
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Cannot find new threads: generic error
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