This was happening to me as well. I did an strace on the process and it was stuck in stat() on a file in the recent files list. The file was on a cifs-mounted NAS partition that was hung due to a network disconnect.
For others who are encountering this, it might be helpful to kill all inkscape processes and then relaunch in a terminal by typing "strace inkscape" and then pasting the last thing it prints before it hangs into this bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785701 Title: Inkscape freezes at opening To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/785701/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
