Same bug on Gentoo (up-to-date version). I had an sshfs mounted permanently on my filesystem.
The solution which worked was also to change the maxrecentdocuments setting to 0 in ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785701 Title: Inkscape freezes at opening To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/785701/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs