Bug 88407

Summary:	inkscape 0.40 and 0.41 crash on startup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Brophy <markbrophy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark Brophy 2005-04-08 14:37:02 UTC

When I execute inkscape, the following is printed out in the terminal:

** ERROR **: file document.cpp: line 350 (SPDocument* sp_document_create(SPReprDoc*, const gchar*, const gchar*, const gchar*, unsigned int, unsigned int)): assertion failed: (SP_ROOT (document->root)->defs)
aborting...

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.Aborted

Then a popup says "Inkscape has crashed and has to be restarted".  I think it has to do with the necessity to be using boehm-gc 4.5 with this version, because  with inkscape 0.37 and an older version, everything works.  But boehm-gc makes 0.37 fail too!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start inkscape
2.wait for crash

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
start

I am running stable versions of glibmm gtkmm glib libsigc++, etc.  The only
development packages I have on my system are inkscape and boehm-gc

Comment 1 Bryce Harrington 2005-06-04 12:03:18 UTC

Can you post a backtrace?

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-19 15:02:15 UTC

No response from user.