Inkscape crashes every time opening existing svg file

Symptom

Every time I open an existing SVG generated by Inkscape, an error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::ConvertError' 

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.

Note to get this error, you must launch Inkscape from a terminal.  If you launch it from the GUI, you will only get a generic error that Inkscape has crashed and will close now.  Useless piece of information.

Solution

Remove rm $HOME/.local/share/recently-used.xbel