Repeatable crash when opening any SVG from macOS finder
Summary:
With Inkscape V1.4.2 on macOS I have associated .svg files with Inkscape. Whenever I try to "Open" an SVG using macOS Finder (or other apps that use OS mechanisms), Inkscape always crashes. If I manually open the same file from Inkscape, no crash. With Inkscape open in the background I get this backtrace:
<pre>
0# Inkscape::Application::crash_handler(int) in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.1.4.2.0.dylib
1# _sigtramp in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib
2# InkscapeApplication::on_activate() in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.1.4.2.0.dylib
3# Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libglibmm-2.4.1.dylib
4# g_closure_invoke in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
5# signal_emit_unlocked_R in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
6# g_signal_emit_valist in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
7# g_signal_emit in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
8# g_application_real_local_command_line in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib
9# g_application_run in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib
10# main in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape
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<details><summary>System info</summary>
Inkscape 1.4.2 (ebf0e940, 2025-05-08)
Compile (Run)
GLib version: 2.76.3
GTK version: 3.24.42 (3.24.42)
glibmm version: 2.66.6
gtkmm version: 3.24.9
libxml2 version: 2.11.4
libxslt version: 1.1.29
Cairo version: 1.18.0 (1.18.0)
Pango version: 1.50.14 (1.50.14)
HarfBuzz version: 8.0.1 (8.0.1)
OS version: macOS 15.6 (24G5065c) arm64
</details>
With Inkscape closed I get a macOS crash report dialog with the following crash report:
Steps to reproduce:
- Try to open an SVG file with macOS Finder.
What happened?
Crash
What should have happened?
Inkscape opens the SVG
Version info
Inkscape 1.4.2 (ebf0e940, 2025-05-08)
Compile (Run)
GLib version: 2.76.3
GTK version: 3.24.42 (3.24.42)
glibmm version: 2.66.6
gtkmm version: 3.24.9
libxml2 version: 2.11.4
libxslt version: 1.1.29
Cairo version: 1.18.0 (1.18.0)
Pango version: 1.50.14 (1.50.14)
HarfBuzz version: 8.0.1 (8.0.1)
OS version: macOS 15.6 (24G5065c) arm64