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Re: Bug#303551: Help with inkscape bug #303551



Hi Lee, hi Michel,

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:32:06AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 04:30, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:16 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote:
> > > In bug #303551 it was reported that inkscape segfaults on startup.
> > > strace output and a core file are attached to the bugreport. ltrace
> > > outputs nothing and never finishes. gdb however gives
> > > or has an idea how to debug this?
> >
> > I recently encountered similarly mysterious crashes in some
> > applications. None of my debugging attempts seemed to make much sense,
> > so I ended up going through all the dependencies and reinstalling them
> > one at a time. Lo and behold, the crashes vanished after reinstalling
> > one of the library packages. So apparently the library had somehow got
> > corrupted on the filesystem.
> >
> > No idea if this is a similar issue, but it's definitely something worth
> > trying I think.
> 
> Yes, it seems to have been similar.  Made a little script that reinstalled 
> each dependency, then tried to launch inkscape.  After a while of running in 
> the background, inkscape popped up, and the output was:
> 
> Setting up libgtkmm-2.4-1 (2.4.11-1) ...
> libgtkmm-2.4-1 fixed it
> 
> :)
> 
> I'm still not sure what the problem was, but I guess it's been fixed now, 
> whatever it was :)

It's nice to know it works for you now. I'll close the bug then and I
hope you have fun with inkscape ;-)

Thanks to all who tried to help.

With best wishes,

Wolfi
> 
> Thanks Michel, Wolfram, and Guido :)
> 
> -- 
> Lee.
> 
> Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.

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