Hi, i use OpenSuse 10.0 and Inkscape allways crash on startup. I had this error with different versions from Suse and also with a 0.43+devel (Jan 7 2006) compiled on my host

Here is the backtrace:

sandra:/home/ralf/inkscape # gdb ./src/inkscape GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run Starting program: /home/ralf/inkscape/src/inkscape [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1094520864 (LWP 15985)] ** Message: Beginning icon prerendering

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1094520864 (LWP 15985)] 0x40536447 in std::_List_node_base::hook () from //usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40536447 in std::_List_node_base::hook () from //usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #1 0x0814da47 in std::list<sigc::slot_base, std::allocatorsigc::slot_base >::insert ( this=0x8709ff0, __position={_M_node = 0x8709ff0}, __x=@0xbfdfb380) at list.tcc:88 #2 0x081ed01e in Inkscape::ObjectHierarchy::_addTop (this=0x87099b8, object=0x8594d90) at signal_base.h:180 #3 0x081ed5b7 in Inkscape::ObjectHierarchy::setTop (this=0x87099b8, object=0x8594d90) at object-hierarchy.cpp:59 #4 0x081c8b56 in SPDesktop::setDocument (this=0x8602e00, doc=0x85f0f78) at desktop.cpp:1073 #5 0x081c995c in SPDesktop::init (this=0x8602e00, nv=0x859aed0, aCanvas=0x31) at desktop.cpp:165 #6 0x082a19b8 in sp_desktop_widget_new (namedview=0x859aed0) at desktop-widget.cpp:922 #7 0x0814e677 in sp_file_new (templ=0x0) at file.cpp:115 #8 0x081500a6 in sp_file_new_default () at file.cpp:150 #9 0x08147b71 in sp_main_gui (argc=1, argv=0xbfdfb754) at main.cpp:823 #10 0x08219911 in Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run (this=0xbfdfb6b8) at application.cpp:121 #11 0x081473d9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfdfb754) at main.cpp:673

Thanks Ralf