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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