"encountered an internal error and will close now" upon a starting with this specific file

i have a specific svg file and when i try to open it with inkscape i get a window saying "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now." with other files i have no problem. this file has been exported from some other application and i would'nt wonder if there is something erroneous in it, but it would be nice if inkscape could offer some hint on what is wrong with the file and i guess "an internal error" may be something that could be fixed in inkscape.

i use inkscape 0.48 installed from apt-get on kubuntu 11.04

in the terminal i get:
inkscape error.svg
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Geom::ContinuityError'
  what(): lib2geom exception: Non-contiguous path (2geom/path.cpp:97)

in gdb i get:
gdb --args inkscape error.svg
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/inkscape...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape error.svg
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x932fab70 (LWP 14722)]
[New Thread 0x928ffb70 (LWP 14723)]
[New Thread 0x918eeb70 (LWP 14724)]
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Geom::ContinuityError'
  what(): lib2geom exception: Non-contiguous path (2geom/path.cpp:97)

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb6316e71 in raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#2 0xb631a34e in abort () at abort.c:92
#3 0xb65300b5 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#4 0xb652dfa5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#5 0xb652dfe2 in std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#6 0xb652e14e in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#7 0x087302b4 in ?? ()
#8 0x086d3a57 in ?? ()
#9 0x086d6d08 in ?? ()
#10 0x081aeb57 in ?? ()
#11 0x081b1e17 in ?? ()
#12 0x081a872a in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#13 0x081aab7d in ?? ()
#14 0x081a872a in ?? ()
#15 0x081aab7d in ?? ()
#16 0x081a872a in ?? ()
#17 0x081aab7d in ?? ()
#18 0x081a872a in ?? ()
#19 0x081aab7d in ?? ()
#20 0x081a872a in ?? ()
#21 0x085c7efc in ?? ()
#22 0x081d0dfe in ?? ()
#23 0x081d0dfe in ?? ()
#24 0x081d02bc in ?? ()
#25 0x081d0032 in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#26 0x081d0032 in ?? ()
#27 0x081d36e4 in ?? ()
#28 0x081d38ae in ?? ()
#29 0xb704d311 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#30 0xb7051aa8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#31 0xb7052270 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#32 0xb705292b in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#33 0xb7627c39 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#34 0xb7e37357 in Gtk::Main::run_impl() () from /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1
#35 0xb7e37d42 in Gtk::Main::run() () from /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1
#36 0x08086cb3 in ?? ()
#37 0x081713ea in ?? ()
#38 0x0808601a in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#39 0xb6302e37 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8085c20, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbffff1b4, init=0x876b3d0, fini=0x876b430, rtld_fini=0xb7ff0a50, stack_end=0xbffff1ac) at libc-start.c:226
#40 0x08084a61 in ?? ()
(gdb)

if i shall provide any other information let me know