inkscape 0.46 0ubuntu2

[djallalnamri]

*hello all
*i am a new comer and this is my first post;i have a problem with inkscape version mentionned above:problem is that inkscape shuts down everytime i use the pencil tool with an error message that says :(translated from french) inkscape had undergone internal error and is going to shut down now
*i am on ubuntu 8.04 lts
*any idea....
*thanks in advance

[Ramchu]

 
  Hi,

    I can't tell you whats going on in inkscape, I am barely familiar with it myself.
  But I would uninstall the program, including the .inkscape folder - download the program again  and reinstall it.
 
   The program sounds like it may have gotten corrupted.
  Also this may not be the best forum for fixing the program, you may get better results by going to http://www.inkscape.org/

[Jaws]

Welcome Djallalnamri.

... Or asking at the Ubuntu forum as there may be a dependency problem.

Cheers

[lunoob]

*hello all
*i am a new comer and this is my first post;i have a problem with inkscape version mentionned above:problem is that inkscape shuts down everytime i use the pencil tool with an error message that says :(translated from french) inkscape had undergone internal error and is going to shut down now
*i am on ubuntu 8.04 lts
*any idea....
*thanks in advance

I think I had the same experience.  If I remember correctly, the solution was to go into my home folder and find the folder called ".inkscape" (the "." makes it a "hidden" file.  You need to chose to "Show Hidden Files" in your file browser.)
In that folder, I re-named the file called preferences.xml by putting a "~" at the end of the file name. 

I think that the next time I opened Inkscape the preferences.xml file was re-created and I never had the problem again.

[djallalnamri]

*hello
*thank you very much mr lunoob as it solved the problem for me too
*thanks again

[lunoob]

Yeah, I think that for some reason Inkscape 0.46 comes with a blank or empty preferences.xml file.  Then when the Inkscape program tries to use that xml file, it can't, because it has no xml data in it.  Seems a little mysterious to me.   

[sawer]

I have it running in Klikit and in LXDE with no issues.

[lunoob]

I have it running in Klikit and in LXDE with no issues.

I wonder if yours are slightly customized packages for your distros.  (?)

[sawer]

If I remember right I downloaded the package from Inkscape. Ubuntu/Klikt 8.04 didn't have the upgrade. LXDE came from Debian lenny site.

[lunoob]

If I remember right I downloaded the package from Inkscape. Ubuntu/Klikt 8.04 didn't have the upgrade. LXDE came from Debian lenny site.

Oh, I see.  I don't know if it makes the difference, but I see that Lenny has 0.46-2 and I compiled the 0.46-3 svn version.

[Paul LeBlanc]

svn versions will always be a bit buggy

[lunoob]

svn versions will always be a bit buggy

That much I understand.  Funny thing is, it's performed like a champ apart from the bit right at the beginning due to that one little empty xml file.