Hey Wolfram, Indeed upgrading inkscape to 0.43 did the trick.
I did not realize I had not upgraded that package to sarge. Should not the reportbug program tell me a newer version is availaible? Since it does check appartently... Thanks.
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:59:45PM -0500, B. Bogart wrote: > Package: inkscape > Version: 0.41-4.99.sarge0 > Severity: normal > > Setting the document background colour via: > "File" -> "Document Preferences" -> "Background" > freezes inkscape & X. inkscape uses 100% CPU > Must manually kill inkscape from console. > > Attached is the strace leading up to the freeze. The last line is the > console kill of inkscape. > > Reproduced on my home machine as well. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-ck5 > Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) I can't reproduce this bug here with the new version of inkscape, 0.43. It's interesting that you have the version from sarge installed and your APT prefers unstable. Can you please test with the new version? Apart from bugs in inkscape this can also be caused by the incompatibility of library versions. Thanks, Wolfi
