Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

krafczyk · 2017-07-05 17:47:28

Inkscape is crashing for me with the following message:

FontLister::get_best_style_match(): can't find family: Sans
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gtk::IconThemeError'

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.
[1]    31357 abort (core dumped)  inkscape

Googling has not yielded any solution for me, Does anybody know what might be the problem?

jasonwryan · 2017-07-05 18:14:39

Install a sans serif font.

Moving to NC...

krafczyk · 2017-07-05 21:30:45

I really doubt it's as simple as just 'installing a sans font'.

I have many fonts installed, Including the famous Arial which I assume comes loaded on arch automatically and I also assume counts as a sans family font. This is in addition to many others such as 'Dejavu sans', 'droid sans', 'nimbus sans' etc...
I also have a number of ttf font packs installed which contain sans family fonts such as

ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-ubuntu-font-family

So it's not clear to me at all what I would be installing in addition to what I already have to solve this error.
To make matters worse, Inkscape worked on this machine in the past and works currently on a new arch machine I just put together last month, so there must be something subtle which broke on my machine recently to cause this to happen.

seth · 2017-07-06 12:53:18

fc-match Sans

And "man coredumpctl":

[1]    31357 abort (core dumped)  inkscape

something subtle which broke on my machine recently to cause this to happen.

Some subtle update perhaps? ;-P

Please upload your pacman log.

krafczyk · 2017-07-06 16:09:43

fc-match Sans
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

I've attached the inkscape dump and the pacman.log.

krafczyk · 2017-07-06 16:13:45

Oops, Here are links:

inkscape.dump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3BA_G … sp=sharing
pacman.log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3BA_G … sp=sharing

seth · 2017-07-06 16:19:29

"man coredumpctl" - the dump is 140MB but the trace is just few lines of text ...

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#1 2017-07-05 17:47:28

Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#2 2017-07-05 18:14:39

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#3 2017-07-05 21:30:45

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#4 2017-07-06 12:53:18

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#5 2017-07-06 16:09:43

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#6 2017-07-06 16:13:45

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

#7 2017-07-06 16:19:29

Re: Inkscape crashing with FontLister error.

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