Comment 31 for bug 642417

I've just had a similar problem with saving as .xcf. From the junk_from_gimp.txt file in /tmp/tmpwudXWH/ the problem stems from this png file which doesn't seem to get created:

(#<error PROCEDURE 134> ("Procedure execution of file-png-load failed: Could not open '/tmp/tmpwudXWH/text4233.png' for reading: No such file or directory"))

This corresponds to an empty text tag in XML that Inkscape created. I found this at the very end of my svg file:

  <text
     xml:space="preserve"
     style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:normal;text-align:start;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;writing-mode:lr-tb;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Droid Sans;-inkscape-font-specification:Droid Sans Bold"
     x="252.5"
     y="62.890442"
     id="text4233"
     sodipodi:linespacing="125%"><tspan
       sodipodi:role="line"
       id="tspan4235"
       x="252.5"
       y="62.890442" /></text>

Using a text editor I removed that snippet from the XML and I can now save as .xcf without problem.

What's annoying is that Inkscape (version 0.48.0 r9654) created this text object that I could neither see nor select. I created this svg document in Inkscape. At some point my document did have some text in it, but long before saving I had deleted it. Since Inkscape had no problem exporting other similar documents as .xcf, I tried methodically deconstructing this document eliminating layers and objects until I had nothing left, and even then saving as .xcf would fail. So the bug is really that Inkscape left this empty <text> tag which I couldn't select using "Select All in All Layers".