Comment 4 for bug 372372

sorry, this response sort of got lost in the shuffle somewhere.
There are two things you can do, both are workarounds, but they may help.
- you can download the most recent version of the input routines dxf_input.py and dxf_input.inx from the site (this may fix the crash):
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head:/share/extensions/
- you can install QCad and use it to convert the dxf file to a Release 13 version. This is the default format when QCad saves a dxf file.
- if neither of these procedures helps, then perhaps you could re-open this report and give details of the status.