Comment 4 for bug 1003873

This affects me as well. In my case strace shows access to files, which are inaccessible. It is a common practice to hide shared file systems behind private networks. Access via internet required VPN connection or being in the local network. If this is not the case, things get weird. And this actually affects many applications (is not inkscape specific). I had issues with LibreOffice as well.

In my case, strace inkscape reveals files which are at the inaccessible network. The IO (which I guess fails) takes seconds until some sort of time-out. But if there are many files, then this takes longer cumulatively. Funny thing is that none of these files were actually in any way associated to inkscape. Basically, this happens while inkscape checks/goes through recently accessed files. My guess is that some library or component does this, which is shared by many applications. If you can find, which (if this is the case) I would like to report the issue them as well.