Scribus crashes when populating an image frame

[Joe Mooring]

Scribus version: 1.4.1.svn (6 Feb 2012, Build ID C-C-T-F-C1.10.2-64bit

Ubuntu release: 12.04 (fully updated as of 4 Apr 2012) 64-bit)

Steps to reproduce problem:
1. Launch Scribus
2. In the New Document dialog, use the defaults and press OK
3. From the main menu choose Insert > Insert Image Frame
4. Draw an image frame of any size in any location on the page
5. Right-click on the image frame and choose Get Image
6. The open dialog appears, with Look In set to /home/username
7. Click on the Pictures folder -- bam.

A dialog appears:
Title: Scribus Crash
Text: Scribus crashes due to Signal #6

[Joe Mooring (jmooring)]

This does not occur if I start scribus with 'gksudo scribus'.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rudi von Staden (rudi)]

It seems to be related to the file chooser dialogue. I can also get the same error by going to New Document > Open Existing Document > Click on any folder displayed.

[Rudi von Staden (rudi)]

Output running from command line:

Interface is not valid
ASSERT failure in : "Got an update for an invalid inteface. Investigate this.", file atspiadaptor.cpp, line 899
Scribus Crash
-------------
Scribus crashes due to Signal #6
Calling Emergency Save

[Kalyan Chatterjea (kalyan-chatterjea)]

I am having exactly the same problem. Some files with .JPG extension can be imported without problem!

[Karlheinz Müller (khzmueller-m)]

Same problem by open a existing file
Ubuntu 12.04 64bit Unity
~$ scribus
Got bus address: "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-eA0CCLI967,guid=88a909d90d777407419890ec00000042"
Connected to accessibility bus at: "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-eA0CCLI967,guid=88a909d90d777407419890ec00000042"
Registered DEC: true
Registered event listener change listener: true
QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QObject(0x0) " invalid interface!"
QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QSidebar(0x3863a70, name = "sidebar") "sidebar"
FIXME: handle dialog start.
FIXME: handle dialog start.
Interface is not valid
ASSERT failure in : "Got an update for an invalid inteface. Investigate this.", file atspiadaptor.cpp, line 899
Scribus Crash
-------------
Scribus crashes due to Signal #6
QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "2" obj: QMessageBox(0x7fffc4768300) ""
FIXME: handle dialog start.
FIXME: handle dialog end.
Calling Emergency Save

[Karlheinz Müller (khzmueller-m)]

This "bug" seems to be resolved by removing the qt-at-spi package.

[Eric Hanuise (ehanuise)]

"This "bug" seems to be resolved by removing the qt-at-spi package."
I can confirm this #7 fix does work.
Before, clicking on any folder in the file dialog would crash scribus (signal 6). Removing qt-ap-spi fixed the issue.

[Matt Bracewell (suburbanworrier)]

Inherited this bug when I updated from 11.10 to 12.04.
qt-ap-spi removal worked for me.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Also seeing this on 12.04 - removing qt-at-spi sorted it.

[Sebastian Kubat (s-kubat)]

Ok, i have the same problem and imagine i'm a total Linux beginner.
How to remove the qt-ap-spi and what the heck does that mean?

Thanks

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Sebastian: qt-at-spi is a package. You can go to Ubuntu software centre, search for qt-at-spi and click Remove. Or from a command line, run "sudo apt-get remove qt-at-spi" (without the quotation marks). Note that it's installed for a reason: it's part of the accessibility framework that lets visually impaired users use the computer. So removing it might break things if anyone uses a screen reader on your computer.

[Joe Mooring (jmooring)]

@ s-kubat:

To remove:

$ sudo apt-get remove qt-ap-spi

What it means:

According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/qt-at-spi, qt-ap-spi is an accessibility plugin for Qt. As I understand it, this plugin allows screen readers (for users who are visually impaired) to work with applications build with the Qt application framework. You can learn more about Qt here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29

Summary:

If you or any other user on your system does not use a screen reader, removing qt-ap-spi should be sage.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

The bug was reported to Scribus (see link above), and they say it is a bug in qt-at-spi, and hence beyond their control. I've marked it as affecting qt-at-spi as well.

[Sebastian Kubat (s-kubat)]

Thank you very mutch! That helped a lot and fixed my problem :D Keep up the great work!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hoper (denispal)]

After remove:
$ sudo apt-get remove qt-ap-spi
all work

[Hoper (denispal)]

Sorry
After remove:
$ sudo apt-get remove qt-at-spi
all work

[oxman (mohair)]

My latest update/upgrade for 12.04 causes this crash to start. Did not have a problem with it until then. It was associated with hdtemp package I had hoped to install. Doing > $ sudo apt-get remove qt-at-spi solved the problem but crashed hdtemp app.

[Giedrius Vaivilavičius (gvaivilavicius-deactivatedaccount)]

There are lots of bugs reported about this problem - I think we should mark this bug is a duplicate of bug #998012 (librecad, qtiplot (among others) crash with "ASSERT failure in : "Got an update for an invalid inteface. Investigate this.", file atspiadaptor.cpp) or bug #946956 (lyx crashes in open/save file dialog)
QGIS (and other QT applications) crash bugs can be solved by simply removing qt-at-spi package 0.2.0+git20120411-0ubuntu1 (from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)!

[Realramnit (realramnit)]

same here. ubuntu 12.04 (64bit) feat. Gnome-Shell.
Removing qt-at-spi solved the problem.