Inkscape crashing immediately after launch

[callegar]

Hi,
I have inkscape crashing just after launch on an haswell laptop with manjaro KDE (X11 session). Anyone experiencing something similar? Because it’s the first time that I try inkscape in manjaro I cannot say if this is a regression.

[andreas85]

I only have Xfce. There Inkscape works without problems.

[maycne.sonahoz]

Have you tried this?

@maycne.sonahoz

Find error messages

Very often when an applications crashes, and sometimes when it misbehaves, it prints an error message somewhere.

• If the message appears on screen, like in a popup or in the terminal, do read it. In most cases, it hints at what goes wrong (a missing file, a wrong configuration, a corrupted input…) if it doesn’t outright tells the solution (add a missing argument, install a missing dependency, start a service…).
• If no such message appears, there are still ways to look for one.
  • Restart the application from the terminal. In many cases an error will be printed there when reproducing the issue.
  • Check the system journals . This is often required when the issue comes from the system itself, or when the application runs as a daemon and thus cannot be restarted.

[Zesko]

Execute inkscape in the terminal to show which error-info.

[callegar]

Looks like the issue is a race, because it seems to be influenced by the current system activity and load.

The application has always been started from the terminal, I tend to prefer to work through the terminal, there is some complaint about fonts:

You have a huge number of font families and Cairo is limiting the size of widgets you can draw.
Your preview cell height is capped to 26.

This is because I use the upstream texlive and I make the otf and ttf fonts installed with texlive visible to the system.

If I see something else I’ll report it.