<!-- See our full bug reporting guidelines at https://inkscape.org/contribute/report-bugs/ Writing a good bug report will ensure we'll be able to help efficiently. 🙂 --> #### Summary: <!-- Summarize the issue/suggestion concisely: --> Inkscape crashes on start-up #### Steps to reproduce: <!-- Describe what you did (step-by-step) so we can reproduce: --> - remove Appdata/Roaming/Inkscape folder to force Inkscape to reset to default settings (because of previous crashes) - open Inkscape - it will show Welcome dialog - create New Project, or try to open existing one #### What happened? Inkscape crash Sample attachments: <pre> 0# boost::stacktrace::basic_stacktrace<std::allocator<boost::stacktrace::frame> >::init(unsigned long long, unsigned long long) in libinkscape_base 1# Inkscape::Application::crash_handler(int) in libinkscape_base 2# 0x00007FF6EC392412 in inkscape 3# _C_specific_handler in ntdll 4# _chkstk in ntdll 5# _RtlFindCharInUnicodeString in ntdll 6# _KiUserExceptionDispatcher in ntdll 7# Glib::ustring::compose_argv(Glib::ustring const&, int, Glib::ustring const* const*) in libglibmm_2_4_1 8# rebuild_menu(Glib::RefPtr<Gio::MenuModel> const&, Glib::RefPtr<Gio::Menu> const&, UseIcons, Glib::Quark const&, Glib::RefPtr<Gio::Menu>&) in libinkscape_base 9# build_menu() in libinkscape_base 10# InkscapeWindow::InkscapeWindow(SPDocument*) in libinkscape_base 11# InkscapeApplication::window_open(SPDocument*) in libinkscape_base 12# InkscapeApplication::create_window(SPDocument*, bool) in libinkscape_base 13# InkscapeApplication::process_document(SPDocument*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >) in libinkscape_base 14# InkscapeApplication::on_activate() in libinkscape_base 15# Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) in libglibmm_2_4_1 16# _g_closure_invoke in libgobject_2_0_0 17# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0 18# _g_param_spec_variant in libgobject_2_0_0 19# _g_signal_emit in libgobject_2_0_0 20# _g_application_open in libgio_2_0_0 21# _g_application_run in libgio_2_0_0 22# 0x00007FF6EC3941C2 in inkscape 23# 0x00007FF6EC3912EE in inkscape 24# 0x00007FF6EC3913E6 in inkscape 25# _BaseThreadInitThunk in KERNEL32 26# _RtlUserThreadStart in ntdll </pre> <details><summary>System info</summary> Inkscape 1.4-beta2 (9aaf4f3498, 2024-07-30) Compile (Run) GLib version: 2.80.4 GTK version: 3.24.43 (3.24.43) glibmm version: 2.66.7 gtkmm version: 3.24.9 libxml2 version: 2.12.9 libxslt version: 1.1.42 Cairo version: 1.18.0 (1.18.0) Pango version: 1.54.0 (1.54.0) HarfBuzz version: 9.0.0 (9.0.0) OS version: Windows 11 23H2 </details>