bug#56619: Inkscape crashes on startup, renders package unusable

[Justus Winter]

Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> writes:

> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:22:05 +0200
> Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org> wrote:
>
>> Inkscape 1.1.1 crashes on startup on my machine, rendering the package
>> unusable.
>
>> (org.inkscape.Inkscape:10197): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:11:02.121: Could not load 
>> image 'resources/template_about.svg': Couldn’t recognize the image file 
>> format for file 
>> “/gnu/store/cpj62b4rwn4dkkhysknsyfha4bplcgil-inkscape-1.1.1/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg”
>
>> I don't know why it complains about the image files, they do seem to be
>> fine:
>> 
>> % file 
>> /gnu/store/cpj62b4rwn4dkkhysknsyfha4bplcgil-inkscape-1.1.1/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg
>> /gnu/store/cpj62b4rwn4dkkhysknsyfha4bplcgil-inkscape-1.1.1/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg:
>>  SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image
>
>
> Hi! It’s a gdk-pixbuf issue. I’ve been living with this for a while
> now, on the current and previous Ubuntu Unity as base. I can only get
> Inkscape and several other GTK applications to work, when I use a shell
> and enter
> `export 
> GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache`
> before `inkscape` and co.
> If I have that in ~/.profile, Ubuntu-native stuff breaks.
> ~/.profile does contain export
> `GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache`
>
> I guess one could set up aliases or place wrappers in /usr/local/bin,
> but I couldn’t be bothered to do so, so far.

I should add that this is on GuixSD.

Best,
Justus