inkscape crashes

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

Inkscape has been unusable for me on the mac since mid-September due
to it crashing, usually within the first one or two actions after
startup. I haven't complained yet because I don't use inkscape all
that often; and when have needed it, I have been able to use it on a
linux machine at work; and finally, I haven't had the time to
investigate enough to produce a bug report of sufficient quality to be
of any use.

Maybe I should blow away all of inkscape's direct and indirect
dependencies and rebuild, but that is a huge number of ports. I might
as well blow away my entire ports tree and rebuild it.

All I can offer is an excerpt from a recent crashlog:

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x00007fff84f403d6 __kill + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x00007fff84fe0913 __abort + 103
2   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x00007fff84fe0981 abort_report_np + 0
3   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x0000000102505bf8 g_assertion_message + 328
4   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x0000000102506142 g_assertion_message_expr + 82
5   libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib              0x0000000101a3a947 get_icon_fallback + 103
6   libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib              0x0000000101a352d7 idle_populate_func + 839
7   libgdk-x11-2.0.0.dylib              0x0000000101db8c19 gdk_threads_dispatch + 89
8   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x00000001024e0919 g_main_context_dispatch + 553
9   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x00000001024e3fb1 g_main_context_iterate + 961
10  libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x00000001024e42c5 g_main_loop_run + 485
11  libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib              0x00000001019dfd90 gtk_main + 176
12  inkscape                            0x00000001000303a0 sp_main_gui(int, char const**) + 1280
13  inkscape                            0x000000010002fa1e main + 1230
14  inkscape                            0x000000010002eec8 start + 52

It might be interesting to know if others see the same in their
crashlogs. Look for them in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/, with names
like inkscape_<date>_<machine>.crash

- Harald