Comment 6 for bug 345371

maybe a little bit late but in the last days faced the same prob and found a little tricky solution.

my problems are linked offsets to texts and linked offsets. i created a text changed it to an "unflown text" and for a better looking outline i created a linked offset to it. then i set the radius with the xml-editor to 4 and changed the color of the first linked offset. to add a shadow to the text an the 1st linked offset i made a linked the offset again to a new linked offset. i set the radius of the second offset to 2, next i set the fill color to black with an alpha value of 127 and unsharpened it.
the first time i did this to three different text objects any time after saving the changes inkscape crashed. while crashing a backup file was created. i tried to open the backup file and the original file, but i couldn't open one of the files.

the problem seem to be in the linked offset objects. today i created the linked offset objekts and changed it to a path. this stopps the crashes but whenever i try to change the text I have to create a new linked offset and so on.

while i had the feeling inkscape is running more smoothly, the app crashed again and i had a file that causes inkscape to crash while opening. the solution for me was using an editor and delete all xml-tags for offsets (i used to search for "radius"). after saving the modified file i was able to open it with inkscape again.