Bug 2226814

Summary:	update resolves sporadic crash in inkscape
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Garrett Mitchener <garrett.mitchener>
Component:	gtk3	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	gnome-sig, mclasen, toon.verstraelen
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Description Garrett Mitchener 2023-07-26 16:10:20 UTC

Inkscape can be run as a command-line app to export files to various formats.
When doing so, it frequently crashes, but not always.
The problem seems to be due to a change in how glib2 manages memory starting with version 2.76.0, which sometimes triggers an error in Gtk 3 applications while communicating with DBus.
It seems to be a race condition:
Removing  ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel can prevent this crash.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4177



Upstream bug report for inkscape crash: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4177

Upstream merge request for Gtk 3: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6180

Related bug report in Arch: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79189

Comment 1 Toon Verstraelen 2023-11-27 11:17:02 UTC

I tested the fix by patching my gtk3 rpm with the patch from: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6180 (following https://blog.aloni.org/posts/how-to-easily-patch-fedora-packages/).

This fix seems to work well so far. It may worth including this fix in the gtk3-3.24.38 package. I'm not sure when gtk3-3.24.39 will be released (which will include the fix) and a lot of people seem to be affected by this problem: this bug already has a duplicate here on Bugzilla and there 10 duplicates on the Inkscape issue tracker. Arch has already patched its gtk3 package for the same reason.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-28 13:35:59 UTC

Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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