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Opening Inkscape Manual Crashes Program

Bug #785947 reported by NathanBeaumont on 2011-05-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #781397: Help opens web browser (Epiphany, Konqueror), Inkscape stays in modal state .. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	inkscape (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: inkscape

My default browser is Google Chrome but Inkscape still opened a help manual online in Firefox, the window saying "Inkscape Manual Working..." still stayed up and after I tried to exit it, it crashed the program.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: inkscape 0.48.1-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-23 (38 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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NathanBeaumont (nathanbmnt) on 2011-05-20

description:

updated

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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote on 2011-05-31:

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for reporting this problem. Please could you provide some extra information for us by running the following command in a terminal window?

apport-collect 785947

Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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NathanBeaumont (nathanbmnt) wrote on 2011-06-01: Dependencies.txt

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain)

apport information

tags:	added: apport-collected natty running-unity
description:	updated

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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote on 2011-06-01:

Thanks Nathan. As I see it, there are two issues here:

1) Firefox opening, rather than Chrome:
I believe that there is a bug in Chrome that prevents it from correctly registering itself as the preferred browser. Please could you try going to the "Preferred Applications" option in your System Settings? Is Chrome selected as your preferred browser? If not, please select it, and try launching the Inkscape manual again. Does it now open in Chrome?

2) The "Inkscape Manual Working..." dialog never disappears.
Yes, I can confirm this. It has, in fact, already been reported as bug #781397.

I will mark this report as a duplicate of bug #781397. The first issue can't really be dealt with here, because Chrome is a third-party package and it isn't maintained by the Ubuntu project. Hope this helps!