Comment 23 for bug 211607

The skeleton freeze did not give any console messages here either... I asked for it before I knew the X11 pasteboard changes indeed stopped the paste related crashes.

> That locale thingy may have something to do with it?
I don't think so. When X11 disables Inkscapes internal c&p every copy you do of vector shapes gets pasted as bitmap (like the command 'Edit > Make Bitmap Copy'). Bitmap copies are stored as external bitmap files and only linked into the svg file. They usually are saved in either the current working directory, a tmp directory or sometimes Inkscape re-uses the path of the last/stored 'Save as...' command. If you don't have write-privileges in any of these directories Inkscape fails to write the png file and - this exception doesn't get caught - crashes. There is however a console message that says "what : Failed to open '/pastedpic_05282009_151750.png' for writing: Permission denied " or similar.

Since 0.47pre1 the way Inkscape stores the default paths for open/save/export has changed - hopefully reducing the number of situations where it crashes without visible (i.e. perceptible for the user) reason.