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inkscape crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

Bug #424378 reported by Luis Silva
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Inkscape 0.47 "0.47"
inkscape (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: inkscape

Inkscape crashes whenever I try to open eps files generated with some old version of gnuplot. I attatch an example file which consistently reproduces this bug. Both gwenview, krita and ImageMagik's display seem to have no problem with this file.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Sep 4 17:01:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/inkscape
Package: inkscape 0.47~pre1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: inkscape spect_comparison-tese.eps
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x172efbb <strlen+11>: cmp %ch,(%eax)
 PC (0x0172efbb) ok
 source "%ch" ok
 destination "(%eax)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: inkscape
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 GlobalParams::scanEncodingDirs() ()
 GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char const*) ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: inkscape crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Luis Silva (lacsilva) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:?? ()
?? ()
Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfInput::open (
Inkscape::Extension::Input::prefs (this=0x9073da0,
Inkscape::Extension::open (key=0x9073da0,

Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
visibility: private → public
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

1) Could you attach a sample EPS file that crashes Inkscape?
2) Does the crash still happen with Inkscape 0.47 or a nightly build of 0.47+devel?

tags: added: crash eps importing
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)
Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
su_v (suv-lp)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → High
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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

@suv - There is already an attached EPS file. I am able to open in successfully in Ubuntu using inkscape_0.47.0-2ubuntu3

I'll close this report for now, unless one of the reporters is able to confirm that the bug still exists in the latest official Ubuntu package or in the upstream version of inkscape 0.48

Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in inkscape:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Luis Silva (lacsilva) wrote :

I can confirm that this bug has been solved with the final release of inkscape 0.47. Can be marked as "fix released".

Changed in inkscape:
status: Invalid → Fix Released
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Fix Released
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Luis Silva (lacsilva) wrote :

I can confirm that this bug has been solved with the final release of inkscape 0.47. Can be marked as "fix released".

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

@Alex - oops, I missed that file in the list ;-)

'spect_comparison.eps' opens without crash in Inkscape 0.47, 0.48 and 0.48+devel r9762 on OS X 10.5.8 (poppler 0.12.x, Ghostscript 8.70)

su_v (suv-lp)
Changed in inkscape:
milestone: none → 0.47
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