Skencil crashes at start

[junior]

Binary package hint: skencil

Skencil does not start at all

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 19:46:20 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/skencil/skencil.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: skencil 0.6.17-7build1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/skencil
ProcCwd: /home/temp
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: skencil
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb7de2e1a in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0xb771e984 in ?? () from /usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/../Lib/paxmodule.so
 #2 0xb79a8560 in ?? ()
 #3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/../Lib/paxmodule.so
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux Junior 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio backup cdrom dialout dip fax floppy plugdev scanner tape

[sonmez (sonmezsahut)]

I have the same problem. This is what I get when I start the program from the terminal:

sonmez@sonmez-desktop:~$ skencil
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7e07e78 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7eaf7cd]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7eb2e30]
/usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/../Lib/paxmodule.so[0xb7b36984]
/usr/bin/python[0x8110e6a]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x6150)[0x80c8f80]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x6135)[0x80c8f65]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x6135)[0x80c8f65]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x775)[0x80c9d65]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x53f9)[0x80c8229]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x775)[0x80c9d65]
/usr/bin/python[0x8112096]
/usr/bin/python(PyObject_Call+0x27)[0x805c787]
/usr/bin/python[0x80628e4]
/usr/bin/python(PyObject_Call+0x27)[0x805c787]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x2031)[0x80c4e61]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x775)[0x80c9d65]
/usr/bin/python[0x8112096]
/usr/bin/python(PyObject_Call+0x27)[0x805c787]
/usr/bin/python[0x80628e4]
/usr/bin/python(PyObject_Call+0x27)[0x805c787]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords+0x6c)[0x80c1f7c]
/usr/bin/python(PyInstance_New+0x71)[0x8066031]
/usr/bin/python(PyObject_Call+0x27)[0x805c787]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x2031)[0x80c4e61]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x6135)[0x80c8f65]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x775)[0x80c9d65]
/usr/bin/python(PyEval_EvalCode+0x57)[0x80c9dd7]
/usr/bin/python(PyRun_FileExFlags+0xf8)[0x80e91d8]
/usr/bin/python(PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags+0x187)[0x80e9467]
/usr/bin/python(Py_Main+0x9c0)[0x8059330]
/usr/bin/python(main+0x22)[0x8058862]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb7e5debc]
/usr/bin/python[0x80587b1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0813f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2632922 /usr/bin/python2.5
0813f000-08164000 rw-p 000f6000 08:01 2632922 /usr/bin/python2.5
08164000-08496000 rw-p 08164000 00:00 0 [heap]
b6e00000-b6e21000 rw-p b6e00000 00:00 0
b6e21000-b6f00000 ---p b6e21000 00:00 0
b6fb2000-b6fbd000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 560029 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b6fbd000-b6fbe000 rw-p 0000a000 08:01 560029 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b6fce000-b6fd0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2814662 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/fcntl.so
b6fd0000-b6fd1000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 2814662 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/fcntl.so
b6fd1000-b6fd3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2814618 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_random.so
b6fd3000-b6fd4000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 2814618 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_random.so
b6fd4000-b6fd8000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2814661 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/binascii.so
b6fd8000-b6fd9000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 2814661 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/binascii.so
b6fd9000-b6fda000 ---p b6fd9000 00:00 0
b6fda000-b77da000 rw-p b6fda000 00:00 0
b77da000-b77e0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 671959 /usr/lib/skencil/Lib/paxtkinter.so
b77e0000-b77e1000 rw-p 00005000 08:01 671959 /usr/lib/skencil/Lib/paxtkinter.so
b77e1000-b77e4000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 671706 /usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/Modules/pstokenize.so
b77e4000-b77e5000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 671706 /usr/lib/skencil/Sketch/Modules/pstokenize.so...

[sonmez (sonmezsahut)]

Forgot to mention that I am using Ubuntu 7.04 on a PC

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

This also affects the ability of Inkscape to import postscript