[Tilesathome] Inkscape preferences error

[Chris Dombroski]

On 07/20/2010 09:10 AM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> Am 20.07.2010 15:06, schrieb Chris Dombroski:
>
>   
>> This is a dedicated VM so tilesGen is the only thing running. When this
>> happens, the entire tilesGen process dies (which in my case causes it to
>> be started again, which quickly gets me to the request limit). Deleting
>> the user's .inkscape directory clears this up for a while, but it comes
>> back later.
>>     
> Then either don't blindly restart your client, taking up requests that
> could've been rendered by other clients, or take care your auto-restart
> does some sanity checks before (re-)starting the client.
> In your case a simple "rm -rf ~/.inkscape" before running the client
> would suffice as a workaround for you particular problem.
>
>   
While that would certainly take care of the symptoms, that still leaves
the root problem. Somehow the inkscape preferences are getting mangled,
and that probably shouldn't be happening.