Comment 24 for bug 623640

The German forum suggests to correct the profiles. I did it but no success. At the end, I solved by manually editing the ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml (vanilla: I deleted my preferences and I let Inkscape create a new one) and changing "from_display" from 0 to 1. It's easy, no need to download an older version of Inkscape.

Strange enough, at home Inkscape 0.47 and 0.48.x crashed always at startup, but I notice that here at work there are no problems at all, even with the setting "0" and with the same OS: 10.6.6.
Mac Pro 2007 at work, iMac 2.4 GHz 2007 at home. Probably at home I have some (correct) profiles that nevertheless make Inkscape crash, while here I have only standard profiles. I can send the list if needed, but, as info, I have at home Lightroom and Photoshop and I have calibrated profiled made with SuperCal, while here at work I have none of these softwares or profiles.
I hope you can track the bug and solve it soon, since it affects users *even with standard preferences", meaning that some people will never be able to use the app unless they are searching the forums for a solution. Standard settings should be the safest :-)