I solved this - it was a dependency problem:

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Viv Kendon wrote:

> I just built and installed inkscape.  It runs, but when I
> try to open a file (previously created inkscape file from
> version 0.48.1) it fails to open it, with the following
> errors output to the xterm I started it from:
>
> (inkscape:31075): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **:
> gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed
>
> ** (inkscape:31075): WARNING **: Invalid URI
>
> ** (inkscape:31075): WARNING **: Error:  Could not open file
> '/Users/viv/work/posters/svgs/computesteps.svg' with VFS
>
> inkscape doesn't crash.  But it isn't very useful if it
> can't open my inkscape files.
>
> This is on 10.6.8 64bit, everything up to date as of a
> couple of days ago.  And case sensitive file system.

however, it was not on the machine I built inkscape on, the 
deb was pulled from that machine using apt-get.  And it only 
installed gnome-vfs2-unified-shlibs, it didn't also install 
gnome-vfs2-unified.  When I installed the latter, it pulled 
in some more packages:

The following extra packages will be installed:
   dbus gconf2 orbit2

and did some config stuff after, i.e., set up dbus.

So I think it must actually be dbus that is missing from 
inkscape's dependencies, or gnome-vfs2-unified-shlibs.

Anyway, it now works for me.

cheers,
-- Viv
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Dr Viv Kendon    http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
tel: +44 113 343 4864      Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Information Group    University of Leeds


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