Inkscape crashes when copy-pasting anything.

[aspizu]

with the error

Error writing selection data: Error writing to file descriptor: Broken pipe

[Linus789]

I haven't been able to reproduce this issue, perhaps it has been fixed?

[liaminventions]

This is happening to me as well, Nothing coredumped though...

wl-clip-persist log:

> wl-clip-persist --clipboard both

[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: text/html
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/hpgl
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: application/pdf
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: text/x-tex
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: application/x-xcf
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: application/tar
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-e-postscript
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/svg+xml-compressed
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-wmf
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/sif
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-inkscape-svg
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-postscript
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: application/x-zip
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/jpeg
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from fi
le descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: text/xml+xaml
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/png
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/webp
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-inkscape-svg-compressed
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/dxf
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/x-emf
[2024-01-02T15:50:35.463Z WARN  wl-clip-persist Seat 4] Timed out reading from file descriptor
    Ignoring mime type: image/tiff

inkscape log:

> inkscape

(org.inkscape.Inkscape:3801): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:50:26.774: Creating a portal monitor failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
Deflater:total:0
Deflater:total:0
Deflater:total:0
Deflater:total:0

(org.inkscape.Inkscape:3801): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:50:35.662: Error writing selection data: Error writing to file descriptor: Broken pipe

(org.inkscape.Inkscape:3801): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:50:35.664: Error writing selection data: Error writing to file descriptor: Broken pipe

(org.inkscape.Inkscape:3801): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:50:35.665: Error writing selection data: Error writing to file descriptor: Broken pipe

[Linus789]

Hm, okay. I think this is an issue that should be opened on their side. I think it should be possible to work around the issue for now by using wl-clip-persist --clipboard regular --all-mime-type-regex '(?i)^(?!image/x-inkscape-svg).+'.

[liaminventions]

Hm, okay. I think this is an issue that should be opened on their side. I think it should be possible to work around the issue for now by using wl-clip-persist --clipboard regular --all-mime-type-regex '(?i)^(?!image/x-inkscape-svg).+'.

thanks! that worked!

[Linus789]

Nice to hear :)

[boredland]

Did someone create an upstream issue with inkscape for this? Sadly I don't feel confident that I understood what is happening here...

[Linus789]

Did someone create an upstream issue with inkscape for this?

I did not and I'm not aware of anyone else creating an upstream bug.

Sadly I don't feel confident that I understood what is happening here...

The log message

Error writing selection data: Error writing to file descriptor: Broken pipe

indicates, that while they are still trying to write the clipboard to the file descriptor, we have already closed the file descriptor resulting in a broken pipe for them.

I don't know however, if this log message is related to the crash. Another possibility would be that Inkscape isn't very good at handling the flood of mime types requests.

Why do we close the file descriptor prematurely?

• For older wl-clip-persist versions: when the read timeout occurs
• For newer ones: when there is a newer clipboard offer

We don't want to hold onto the file descriptor indefinitely, and expect other programs to handle closed file descriptors.