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Inkscape won't start properly: menu text are not shown

Asked by Bram Faems

I'm having trouble starting Inkscape. The given solution (by opening resources and starting "openDoc" helps, but Inkscape still doesn't work as it should. My text is shown as squares and the menu items aren't shown at all.

After working for a while, the program quits whitout any reason.

When opening "openDoc" the terminal lists a number of errors. I think these errors are the reason for all the problems.:
Last login: Sun Oct 26 09:25:43 on tty??
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/openDoc ; exit;
iMac:~ bramfeams$ /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/openDoc ; exit;
2008-10-26 09:26:35.371 defaults[956:10b]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleAquaColorVariant) does not exist
2008-10-26 09:26:35.392 defaults[957:10b]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist
mkdir: /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc: Permission denied
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: line 69: /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc/pangorc: No such file or directory
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: line 70: /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc/pango.modules: No such file or directory
cp: directory /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc does not exist
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: line 73: /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc/gtk.immodules: No such file or directory
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: line 75: /Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory

(inkscape-bin:936): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
 Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: error opening config file '/Users/bramfeams/.inkscape-etc/pangorc': No such file or directory

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
  '/opt/local/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, expect ugly output

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with null font argument, expect ugly output

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_metrics called with null font argument, expect ugly output

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font called with bad font, expect ugly output

** (inkscape-bin:936): WARNING **: Could not create extension error log file '/Users/bramfeams/.inkscape/extension-errors.log'

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_set_size: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_style: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_variant: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_weight: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_stretch: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

** (inkscape-bin:936): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_set_size: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_style: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_variant: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_weight: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_stretch: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

** (inkscape-bin:936): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_set_size: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_style: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_variant: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_weight: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_stretch: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

** (inkscape-bin:936): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_set_size: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_style: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_variant: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_weight: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_stretch: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_description_get_family: assertion `desc != NULL' failed

** (inkscape-bin:936): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango

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mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#1

The output contains these lines:
(inkscape-bin:936): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
  '/opt/local/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.

Have tried running pango-querymodules, as this suggests?
But this is bugreport. You should report this as bug instead, which this definitely is (if not pango configuration problem on your system). Bug reports are overlooked by developers, answers are not. This way your bug would get some attention.

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Bram Faems (bram-tekenidee) said : 		#2

I don't have a clue what you are talking about... really :D

So what should I do? How do I report bugs... When I click on report bugs on the Inkscape homepage, this site is where I'm sent to.

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mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#3

See the red link with text Bugs in the top menu on this site. Click on this link, you will find another red one there, named "Report a bug" fill the form and you are done. Also don't forget to add additional data, if somebody requests you to do so, otherwise your report will be closed as invalid.

First you should try typing pango-querymodules into terminal, as suggested before.

It would also help developers, if you could narrow down the cause of the problem, exact steps, which always lead to crash.

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