On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 16:30:40 -0700, stuseven wrote: > > I posted to the Inkscape forum about this, but so far with no replies... > the problem - and this will be the 2nd time... I forgot my oath of a > year ago never to load Adobe SVG into Inkscape... > ...when I did this yesterday, Inkscape suddenly is unable to > draw simple geometrics... square / ellipse / stars... and the same > library affects several other SVG capable applications. > > My question is: what libraries need to be refreshed or replaced > to get Inkscape in Debian working again ? Note - reinstalling > Inkscape does not fix this problem.
I would like to think that the libraries (and all other system files) are safe as long as you run inkscape as a normal, unprivileged user. (You are not running inkscape or X as root, are you?) Therefore I would guess that some user configuration files got corrupted, i.e. dot files or directories in your home directory. The first thing I would do is create a new user and check if that user can run inkscape and the other affected SVG applications normally. If that turns out to be the case then you might only have to (re)move your regular user's .inkscape directory so that the configuration files are restored from safe defaults when you run inkscape again. > Id much prefer reinstalling libraries than wiping my drive and doing > an entire debian reinstall, but will do that unless somebody can > suggest what libraries to replace. If it turns out that some system files were changed then I would reinstall the system anyway. If some unknown bug lead to root-level write access then you simply cannot know what else has been screwed up, even if you manage to fix inkscape by reinstalling certain libraries. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
