Nearly all of the problems of this class on Gentoo have been due to an upgraded gcc, so that's what I'm going to bet this is, as well.
Basically, the C++ linking ABI between gcc 3.3 and 3.4 changed, and if you mix C++ libs compiled with one version, with code from the other, you get all sorts of oddball problems - 'Absurd stack bottom value' sure sounds oddball. ;-)
Look at gcc --version. If it's >3.3, then that's probably the issue.
If this is indeed the cause, then the solution is straightforward: Re-emerge gtkmm, glibmm, and sigc++, then re-compile inkscape.
On the off chance that this *isn't* the problem, you could run gdb and get a backtrace (see the Report Bug page on the Inkscape website.) Attach that to the bug report. Again, though, my bet is that it's the well-known ABI bug, in which case gdb will be of no help; try re-emerging the libs so they match your compiler version.
Bryce
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:46:38PM -0700, jerry ondola wrote:
the subject line is what is recieved after attempting to run inkscape 0.41 from the command line. using the gui interface, it quitely dies, no error messages. this is on gentoo. i've filed bug report #1176668, this happens with the CVS version and the emerge version. there where no other errors reported with or during the emerge.
any other troubleshooting that i can do before dumping this version and going back to 0.37, which works fine ? thanks for the suggestions jerry
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