On 03-10-12 12:36, Mark Schafer wrote:
Thanks for the testing.
One thing I thought of is my system has 16 cores. Maybe inkscape has a race condition but I'm not sure its using threads anyway... So I tried process affinity and locked inkscape to a single core. but the problem persists and I get the following screenshot showing control never returns to the user :-( http://i46.tinypic.com/v2r8l0.jpg
Haven't tried running it yet, but it looks like the plugin can use filters (blur for example). Is it indeed using filters in your case? If so, could you try disabling this? (So that the output of the plugin does not contain any filters.) The filter code is the one piece of Inkscape that does use threads, and although the chance of a race condition in this code is very small, I must admit that it does sound a bit like a race condition.