Crashes when selecting node(s) and then deleting

[Groffa]

Using Inkscape 0.47
WinXP SP3

Object is created with the freehand tool, and consists of 1538 nodes.
Selecting and deleting one (or more) of them, while zoomed out (70% in my case), crashes the program.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Could you please attach the SVG file that cause Inkscape to crash while node-editing?

[Groffa (jens-pushingcows)]

Objected in question is the one big four-armed thing in the middle.
I tried again and now it crashes just before but at zoom-level 198%...

[Groffa (jens-pushingcows)]

I tried a couple more times now, and it seems to crash randomly, but almost after every time a zoom operation has been done.
I fired up Visual C++ 2008 and attached it to the process, and got the following:
"Unhandled exception at 0x68605637 in inkscape.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00050005."
The top row in the call stack is "libglib-2.0-0.dll!68605637()".

[su_v (suv-lp)]

not reproduced with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.47+devel r9113 on OS X 10.5.8

Could you test whether the crash also happens if you remove the pattern fill from the path?

possibly related to / same as
Bug #463602 in Inkscape: “crash when node-editing pattern-filled object”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/463602>

[Groffa (jens-pushingcows)]

Removing the pattern fill from the object also removes the crash, yes.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thank you for testing and reporting back. There is no other workaround known at the time for Inkscape 0.47, but as commented in bug #463602 the problem has been fixed in the new node tool for version 0.48.

Linking as duplicate to bug #463602 - please add a comment and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think that these are different issues.