Richard Stallman schreef:
Inkscape crashes on startup. I ran it with no args,
and it displayed a small window for a short time
so fast I could not see it.
On the xterm it says something about "GC Warning: Out of Memory".
The machine has swap space so I doubt no memory was available.
I tried Inkscape on my Yeeloong and it started without a problem.
I searched the Debian and Ubuntu bug trackers. There are lots of reports
of Inkscape crashing, but I could find only one that seems similar to
your case [1]. It was reported over 3 years ago (version 0.44) and was
not acted upon.
As for diagnosing the problem: you could try the Debian way of getting a
backtrace [2]. It comes down to rebuilding and installing the package
and running it with gdb.
Alternatively, the output of 'strace inkscape' may provide some clue.
If this actually is a memory problem, then an analysis with Valgrind
might prove useful [3], although I've found a few comments from users
about Inkscape not working well with it. [3] also says that you can turn
off the garbage collector (GC), but I'm not sure if that's recommended
for normal use.
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167742
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace
[3]
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestingFramework#Valgrind_Memory_Leak_Testing
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