Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-5 Severity: normal If I try to start inkscape, I get the errors below. If I remove preferences.xml, I get bug #371891.
/home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:6: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xFF 0xFF 0x5B 0x08 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:6: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:6: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:6: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 6 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:6: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:8: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:8: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:8: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:8: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:11: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:11: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:11: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 11 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:11: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:14: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:14: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:14: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 14 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:14: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:17: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:17: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:17: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 17 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:17: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:20: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:20: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:20: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 20 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:20: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:23: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:23: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:23: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 23 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:23: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:26: parser error : error parsing attribute name <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:26: parser error : attributes construct error <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:26: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag ÿÿ line 26 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:26: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 8 <ÿÿ[ ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:29: parser error : expected '>' </ÿÿ> ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:29: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: inkscape line 2 and ÿÿ </ÿÿ> ^ /home/dho/.inkscape/preferences.xml:29: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document </ÿÿ> ^ (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 12x12/devices of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 12x12/emblems of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 12x12/filesystems of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 12x12/mimetypes of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/apps of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/devices of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/emblems of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/filesystems of theme gnome has no size field (p:2399): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/mimetypes of theme gnome has no size field Duplicate large block deallocation of 0x86a2000 Duplicate large block deallocation Emergency save activated! Here just the start of preferences.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <inkscape xmlns:sodipodi="http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" version="0.42.2"> <ÿÿ[ id="window"> <ÿÿ[ id="menu" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="commands" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="toppanel" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="toolbox" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="statusbar" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="rulers" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="scrollbars" state="1" /> </ÿÿ[> <ÿÿ[ id="fullscreen"> <ÿÿ[ id="menu" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="commands" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="toppanel" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="toolbox" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="statusbar" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="rulers" state="1" /> <ÿÿ[ id="scrollbars" state="1" /> </ÿÿ[> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages inkscape depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgc1c2 1:6.7-1 conservative garbage collector for ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-2 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.10.4-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.8.8-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-6 Shared Perl library ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.26.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.17-1 XSLT processing library - runtime ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages inkscape recommends: ii dia-gnome 0.95.0-4 Diagram editor (GNOME version) ii imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5-0.8 Image manipulation programs pn libwmf-bin <none> (no description available) pn perlmagick <none> (no description available) pn pstoedit <none> (no description available) pn sketch <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information