On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Johan Forsberg wrote:
Hello,
I've been having the same problem for quite some time; the CVS version compiles but then it doesn't run. It just hogs the cpu and nothing happens and I have to kill it. Stable version works fine. There seem to be no error messages during compilation. I've tried several times, latest was a few hours ago. If you'd like any kind of information about my system libraries etc, just ask. I'm on gentoo linux.
I'd like to solve this!
Hi Johan,
I'm on gentoo as well, but have never seen that particular issue.
One thing you could try is running it through gdb and see what it's actually doing while it's hogging the cpu. Do:
$ gdb src/inkscape
then give the command 'run'. Let it go until it's hogging the cpu as usual, then ctrl-Z it. Within gdb, pull up a backtrace:
(gdb) bt
Sometimes it'll show you the function its stuck in, and you can guess what's going on by the filename. You can restart it again via
(gdb) continue
Start/stop it a few times to get a feel for what's going on. Let us know what you see.
Also, have you run make install? It's possible that it's looking for its icons or something. Note that by default it will install Inkscape to /usr/local/bin, so it won't overwrite your current binary.
Bryce