Re: [Inkscape-user] INvalid pointer error (was go figure)

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:45:23PM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > I downloaded the stable tarball to my Slackware system and > immediately ran into compile problems. So on a hunch I downloaded > Inkscape-current and it compiled like a champ. > > I had previously downloaded/installed the Freerock gnome package. Slack > no longer contains Gnome. > > > BTW it still doesn't work: > --------------------------------------- > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0865ebc0 *** > > Emergency save activated! > Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. > If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org > with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can > fix it. You've probably upgraded gcc somewhere along the line and run into the infamous gcc C++ ABI change problem. You need to make sure all of the C++ libs Inkscape needs are compiled with (roughly) the same version of gcc as you're using to compile Inkscape.

Generally, the best solution is to just re-compile libsigc++, libstdc++, libgtkmm, and libgkdmm. o

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#On_Linux.2C_Inkscape_crashes_wi th_.22invalid_pointer.22_message > I am thinking of adding another partition just to get a working > Inkscape. Is there a Linux distro that comes with Inkscape? Pretty much all of them do. You've many options. But I'm 99% sure the above will fix your error; try that first.