Comment 10 for bug 194241

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Denis Darii (dnx) wrote : Re: preferences.xml not a valid XML file, or you dont have read permissions on it. inkscape will run with default settings, new settings will not be saved

I get the following error:

/var/www/.inkscape/preferences.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

And I solved the problem by replacing the content of preferences.xml with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<inkscape
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   version="0.xx.x">
</inkscape>

Replace version="0.xx.x" with your version of inkscape.