I think this may not be an Inkscape bug. It looks like the crash is happening in the file chooser code due to trying to do a string comparison against either an undefined string or a file named with unicode characters ("\240\371V\b")
> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f024bbcb9c0 (LWP 31756)): > #0 __strncmp_sse42 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-sse42.S:1738 > No locals. > #1 0x00007f024994de68 in completion_match_func (comp=<optimized out>, > key_unused=<optimized out>, iter=<optimized out>, data=<optimized out>) at > /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.10/gtk/gtkfilechooserentry.c:427 > chooser_entry = <optimized out> > name = 0x947c550 "\240\371V\b" > result = <optimized out> > norm_file_part = 0x995c2c0 "\001" > norm_name = 0x0 > #2 0x00007f0249931b0a in gtk_entry_completion_visible_func (model=<optimized > out>, iter=0x7fff94e081d0, data=0x994f5b0) at > /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.10/gtk/gtkentrycompletion.c:821 > ret = 0 > completion = 0x994f5b0 > #3 0x00007f0249a796ee in gtk_tree_model_filter_visible (filter=<optimized > out>, child_iter=<optimized out>) at > /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.10/gtk/gtktreemodelfilter.c:764 Anyway, I'm not even sure there's anything we could do to work around this in Inkscape. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986816 Title: Inkscape crashed with SIGSEGV when saving drawing for first time Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: New Status in “inkscape” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I created a new drawing with a copule of text boxes and three objects - two copied from the original - which was an intersection of two rounded boxes. The document saved successfully and then I got a message popup that there had been an error with Inkscape and had to close. I was able to open the document in inkscape after I selected to restart Inkscape. I am using Ubuntu 12.04, last updated mid April. Inkscape version 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1 ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: inkscape 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 22 11:37:45 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/inkscape InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328) ProcCmdline: inkscape ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f02445f8390: movzbl (%rsi),%ecx PC (0x7f02445f8390) ok source "(%rsi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%ecx" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: inkscape StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Title: inkscape crashed with SIGSEGV UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/986816/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp