On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Many OSX people on Slashdot complain that Inkscape does not start for them, just hangs and shows nothing. Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
Here's the bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245978&gro...
There's two things. There are long start times, only on 10.4.x that seem to be caused by spotlight indexing (maybe) or some weird delay based on the way we load libraries (more likely). It just takes even more than a minute the first time inkscape loads so people think it has crashed. If it's icon doesn't disappear from the dock then it hasn't crashed. It seems to start in normal time from the second load onwards.
There also seems to be another crash going round, due to font issues, likely by people who have copiled the X11 app without running the actually installer for it that installs lots of support stuff, this is my hpothesis, but I still need to test it out.
My Powerbook just died this morning, likely logic board problem, so I'm going to be without it for up to a week. *sigh*
I've commented on the two new OSX 10.4 bugs and assigned them to me.
Cheers, Michael