Subject: Re: bug#56619: Inkscape crashes on startup, renders package unusable

From: Justus Winter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:59:25 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Justus,
>
> Justus Winter <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> % guix shell inkscape -- inkscape
>> (inkscape:10197): dbind-WARNING **: 18:11:01.868: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
>>
>> (org.inkscape.Inkscape:10197): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 18:11:01.917: gtk_icon_info_is_symbolic: assertion 'GTK_IS_ICON_INFO (icon_info)' failed
>> Shortcut::read: invalid verb: DialogSpellcheck
>>
>> (org.inkscape.Inkscape:10197): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:11:02.121: Could not load image 'resources/template_about.svg': Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file “/gnu/store/cpj62b4rwn4dkkhysknsyfha4bplcgil-inkscape-1.1.1/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg”
>
> Could you share the output of ‘guix describe’?
>
> Version 1.2 works for me:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix describe
> Generation 222	Jul 17 2022 22:54:21	(current)
>   guix f4ac752
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: f4ac75205825a4bb3ba986f31350b39222d71670
> $ guix shell inkscape -- inkscape
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $ guix shell inkscape -- inkscape --version
> Inkscape 1.2 (dc2aedaf03, 2022-05-15)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Sure!

% guix describe
Generation 157  Jul 11 2022 10:21:38    (current)
  guix 58aaef4
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 58aaef4460b55de9e15301e1a45cc7b45fbf1383
  nonguix 301fc39
    repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
    branch: master
    commit: 301fc39b85678de522323c23aff038252e1eafa5

I'm trying to keep it up-to-date, but froze it because I was going to
present at Debconf using this laptop, and didn't want any surprises...

And indeed, now:

% guix describe
Generation 158  Jul 18 2022 15:54:10    (current)
  guix 8f0d45c
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 8f0d45ccac3f6cee69eba8de5e4ae5e5555f1a3d
  nonguix 674d04a
    repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
    branch: master
    commit: 674d04a5fbd8689ab5ff27271a656f711fc77c54
% guix shell inkscape -- inkscape --version

(inkscape:5439): dbind-WARNING **: 15:57:18.968: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
Inkscape 1.2 (dc2aedaf03, 2022-05-15)

And it works now!  Sorry for the noise.

Best,
Justus