On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 09:18 +1300, Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology wrote:
> 4) Manifestation 1: Choose "select" tool, click away from rect and
> then click rect again. Inkscape dies with "unhandled exception (type
> std::exception) in signal handler:\n what: basic_string::_S_construct
> null not valid"
> 5) Manifestation 2: Don't choose the select tool, just click the rect
> with the rect tool. Inkscape dies with "terminate called after
> throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' \n what():
>  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid"

I have the strangest feeling this might be my doing. Could you post this
as a real bug on launchpad with a full traceback so we can see?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape

BEst regards, Martin Owens