For the record, I don't think Inkscape *did* thrash my user account, but the problem occurred while I was using it and I thought it would be foolish not to mention it... on the off-chance that there was a connection.
I was running the 200510151203 autopackage developer's build. I had selected a bunch of text and pressed the Alt+I key combination to make it italic. Immeditely on doing that, Inkscape disappeared (no error message, nothing). I also noticed that the wallpaper I'd set up on my account disappeared, and I couldn't load any new applications, nor could I exit my session. (In other words, the mouse could move around but it couldn't actually do anything else).
I had to ctrl+alt+backspace to restart X, then I rebooted. After that, I was unable to log in to my user account -- after entering in my password, the login prompt would disappear, it would try to load something, then it would boot me back out to the login prompt.
I logged into my root account and tried to figure out what happened. I have no idea what happened, to be honest, but it appears as though all user accounts were good and messed up by that crash. Creating a new user account from root and trying to log into that caused the same reaction.
That last bit is why I'm pretty sure Inkscape didn't do anything. I was running it in my user account, which means that it shouldn't have touched anything anywhere else, right? So it's more likely that something else occurred when I hit that key combination, and it's only coincidental. Still, I wanted to mention it just in case...
Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)