Comment 18 for bug 429050

Not reproduced on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (32bit) and OS X 10.7.2 (64bit), Inkscape 0.48.2 and trunk revision 10992

Note: I did not even try to reconstruct the circumstances of the original report:
> Inkscape 0.47-pre2 is not installed on the system but compiled
> and used directly from the src directory. A version 0.46 is
> installed on the whole system.

i.e. running a newer version of inkscape out of src (i.e. not installed, but configured with the same prefix as the installed older version) which then loads the shared resource files from an older release (including the shared pattern file).