According to a discussion on sf.net: "It's a library/gcc problem with gentoo, not neccessarily an inkscape bug. It's somehow releated to the fact that inkscape links to libstdc++.so.6 (in the new gcc) yet some of the libraries it uses link libstdc++.so.5... I'd suggest yanking out libstdc++ compatability library (emerge -C libstdc++-v3) then reemerging anything that had linked against it. (The new gcc includes libstdc++.so.6, so no need for the additional package.) Specifically you need to rebuild libsigc++ and inkscape itself. You MAY need to rebuild GCC and glibc (I did while figuring it out, but I'm not sure if it was necessary.) Oh, and rebuild "enchant" since inkscape uses it for spelling and it used the old libstdc++" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on the font properties button 2. 3. Actual Results: Segnemtation Fault See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1028896&group_id=93438&atid=604306 for another user's gdb trace
Also tried re-installing core libraries: # emerge glibc gcc baselayout glib dev-libs/libsigc++ sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 # emerge inkscape Still crashes with a Segmentation fault.
using `ldd -v /usr/bin/inkscape` you can figure out what libs are linking to the old libstdc++. I had to 'emerge gtkmm glibmm dev-libs/libsigc++ inkscape' to get it working.
Is this still valid? As far as I understand this it is not a inkscape bug. A lot people (including me) can't reproduce it. The libs involved in this crash are outdated (or: should be updated on systems where inkscape crashes). Furthermore, Inkscape 0.40 is out where the devels fixed some glibc-crashes and started with the conversion to GtkMM.
I think this problem is related to the libraries that are installed on a system, and may be part of an odd combination of lib versions. I no longer have this problem after upgrading parts of my system.
If you as the reporter can't reproduce it and the libs have been updated since October 16 this bug can be closed I guess. Especially with Inkscape 0.40 out which fixes glib-problems.
I'm closing this out in anticipation of 0.4.
