Bug 477158

Created attachment 327442 [details]
bug report created by bug buddy

Thanks for the report.

Unfortunately, I can't read much from it. I'd be very thankful if you could install gdb and debugging symbols from inkscape -- that could make bug-buddy generate much more usable reports.

To do so, please run following (as root) and then try to reproduce the crash:
1.) "yum install gdb yum-utils"
2.) "debuginfo-install inkscape"

Created attachment 327522 [details]
bug report with call stack information

Sorry for not responding for so long.

#8  font_instance::InitTheFace (this=0x0) at libnrtype/FontInstance.cpp:349
#9  0x083de8f0 in font_factory::Face (this=0x9bc01f8, descr=0x9d41900, 
    canFail=false) at libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:820
#10 0x083deb52 in font_factory::Face (this=0x9bc01f8, descr=0x9d41900, 
    canFail=true) at libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:797
#11 0x083df525 in font_factory::FaceFromPangoString (this=0x9bc01f8, 
    pangoString=0x9ecafd0 "Sans") at libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:724

Seems like there's something wrong with "Sans" font.
Which font packages do you have installed?

Please run: "rpm -qa |grep font"

rpm -qa |grep font
lohit-fonts-hindi-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
thaifonts-scalable-0.4.9-3.fc9.noarch
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-4.fc9.noarch
lohit-fonts-tamil-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
lohit-fonts-oriya-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
fontconfig-2.6.0-3.fc10.i386
lohit-fonts-bengali-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
khmeros-fonts-base-5.0-3.fc10.noarch
urw-fonts-2.4-6.fc10.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
stix-fonts-0.9-7.fc10.noarch
fontconfig-devel-2.6.0-3.fc10.i386
cjkunifonts-ukai-0.2.20080216.1-10.fc10.noarch
smc-fonts-meera-04.1-1.fc10.noarch
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-6.fc10.i386
paktype-fonts-2.0-2.fc8.noarch
abyssinica-fonts-1.0-2.fc8.noarch
lohit-fonts-gujarati-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-26.fc10.noarch
wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.9.9-6.fc10.noarch
libXfont-devel-1.3.3-1.fc10.i386
libfontenc-1.0.4-6.fc10.i386
libXfont-1.3.3-1.fc10.i386
libfontenc-devel-1.0.4-6.fc10.i386
dejavu-fonts-experimental-2.26-2.fc10.noarch
lklug-fonts-0.2.2-6.fc10.noarch
lohit-fonts-kannada-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-19.fc10.noarch
VLGothic-fonts-20081029-1.fc10.noarch
kacst-fonts-2.0-1.fc10.noarch
taipeifonts-1.2-5.fc9.noarch
padauk-fonts-2.4-2.fc10.noarch
lohit-fonts-maithili-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
liberation-fonts-1.04.92-1.fc10.noarch
un-core-fonts-dotum-1.0.2-0.6.080608.fc10.noarch
cjkunifonts-uming-0.2.20080216.1-10.fc10.noarch
lohit-fonts-punjabi-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
bitmap-fonts-0.3-6.fc10.noarch
dejavu-fonts-2.26-2.fc10.noarch
jomolhari-fonts-0.003-5.fc10.noarch
lohit-fonts-telugu-2.3.1-1.fc10.noarch

  I have resolved this problem by removing the package "wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.9.9-6.fc10.noarch",this package is a chinese font, I used it to display more beautiful chinese text, may be it will conflict with the text render mechanism in inkscape.
  Thank you for providing the suggestion for me.

Thank you for your feedback

(In reply to comment #5)
>   I have resolved this problem by removing the package
> "wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.9.9-6.fc10.noarch",this package is a chinese font, I used
> it to display more beautiful chinese text, may be it will conflict with the
> text render mechanism in inkscape.

I still can not reproduce this.

Does the problem reappear when you install that package again?
Is installing the font sufficient to trigger the problem, or you have to do something more, such as choosing to font as default in GNOME or choosing it for Inkscape's Text tool or something like that?

In case you'll be able to reproduce that after reinstalling the package, I'd be thankful if you could attach your Inkscape settings (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml file) and your appearance settings (output of "gconftool-2 --dump /desktop/gnome/interface" command)

Created attachment 328852 [details]
inkscape preferences xml file

Created attachment 328853 [details]
output of command "gconftool-2 --dump /desktop/gnome/interface"

    yes, I can reproduce this problem by reinstalling the package "wqy-bitmap-fonts-0.9.9-6.fc10.noarch". the files you required have been attached.

I finally managed to reproduce it, which is good.
Just a note to self: A Chinese locale has to be activated: LC_ALL=zh_CN inkscape

Possible workaround is to switch to another locale (such as generic English):
$ LC_ALL=C inkscape

inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1

    It's good to hear that. Thannks for all the efforts you have made to solve this problem :-)

inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update inkscape'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-0501

    I failed to update inkscape using command:
    yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update inkscape
    It said no package is marked as updated, then I download inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1 directly from a fedora repository mirror, but encountered the following error when I installing the rpm package:

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py, line 376, in callback
    self._instProgress( bytes, total, h )
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py, line 457, in _instProgress
    self.complete_actions, self.total_actions)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2151, in event
    self._showName(self.info_actions[action])
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2144, in _showName
    self.base.package(package_id, status, self.curpkg.summary)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 235, in package
    PackageKitBaseBackend.package(self, package_id, status, summary)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 109, in package
    print >> sys.stdout, "package\t$s\t$s\t$s" $ (status, package_id, summary)

You can install the package from command line: rpm -Uvh "downloaded-file.rpm"

I'm still interested in how did you get the above backtrace. Which tool did you try to use to install the package? Can you reproduce the issue?

Also, I'm wondering which locale (language setting) do you use? Obtain it with:
echo $LC_ALL

    I successfully installed the package "inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1" by command line，and it works fine now.

    the backtrace above is displayed when I double click the file "inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1.rpm" in desktop and after a few step, the error message is displayed in a dialog, I guess this is outputed by yum. I am curious about what's the difference between double click a rpm package to install it and type rpm xxx command in a terminal to install it.

    as for may locale:

LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I opened a separate ticket for the Package updating problem: bug #480440

inkscape-0.46-6.fc10.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.