program dies silently when starting (SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception)

The same problem exists also on the current version 0.48.1-2.

Best regards, Jerzy

Could you attach the content of the Windows crash report?

> Could you attach the content of the Windows crash report?

I don't know what precisely it is called, I was referring to the information which is displayed after the crash, like e.g. pasted here:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/494791/comments/13>

Sorry, but the program dies without any message either from Inkscape or from MS Windows. No message is displayed.

Best regards, Jerzy

I never observed this on windows.
Do you still have this issue? If so, could you have a look in the logbooks? (I do not know the English terminology, but it should be something like: start > configuration panel (to open the configuration panel). Subsequently click in "system administration" on the option to open the "logs"/"logbook" (or something similar). Search in the left pane for the application log and have a look whether therre are Inkscape entries or other entries at the time the error occurred...

Hi,

Yes, the problem still exists. I found EventViewer in my WinXP, but there was no information about Inkscape (see attached screenshot, the Inkscape crash was at 9:30).

Best regards, Jerzy

Hi Jerzy, Thanks for the update. Hopefully some more users can confirm this issue.

There isn't enough information to troubleshoot this bug. For crashes we at least need a complete stack trace and/or steps to reproduce. The stack trace posted in the description doesn't show any of the Inkscape calls (they're just marked ? ? in lines 3 and 4.) Generally that means you need to reproduce with a build of Inkscape that includes debugging data.

Hello,

Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce the problem because I don't have
WinXP anymore. So I thing the problem could be closed.

BTW, the provided stack trace was obtained with a build *with* debug info.

Best regards, Jerzy

2014-09-14 23:39 GMT+02:00 Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>:

> There isn't enough information to troubleshoot this bug. For crashes we
> at least need a complete stack trace and/or steps to reproduce. The
> stack trace posted in the description doesn't show any of the Inkscape
> calls (they're just marked ? ? in lines 3 and 4.) Generally that means
> you need to reproduce with a build of Inkscape that includes debugging
> data.
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667696
>
> Title:
> program dies silently when starting (SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception)
>
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I tried several versions of Inkscape: 0.47, 0.48 and
> inkscaper9797-1009282106.7z from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/
> page. Each of them ends immediately after starting, without any
> information. This happens only on my machine. I have Lenowo W500
> Thinkpad with Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
> Here is a result of GDB session with inkscaper9797-1009282106.7z and
> inkscaper9797-1009282106-dbg.7z files:
>
> c:\inkscape_dbg>gdb inkscape
> GNU gdb 6.8
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show
> copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"...
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (gdb) symbol-file inkscape.dbg
> Reading symbols from c:\inkscape_dbg/inkscape.dbg...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: c:\inkscape_dbg/inkscape.exe
> [New thread 244.0x1508]
> [New thread 244.0x14f0]
>
> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
> 0x7c812aeb in RaiseException () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x7c812aeb in RaiseException () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
> #1 0x77c52df0 in msvcrt!modf () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
> #2 0xc000008e in ?? ()
> #3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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Closing report based on the last feedback.
If the problem reappears, feel free to reopen this bug.