Pasted Image Crash

Yesterday I pasted an image from the clipboard into a very simple schematic. When I went to open it I got two error message boxes,

Unknown image data format.

and

Error loading schematic ‘/home/rich/KicadProjects/PowerSupply/Doubler_For_1629/Doubler_For_1629.kicad_sch’.

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 9.0.0-rc2-be38fa5cac~182~ubuntu24.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.13.2
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.5.0 OpenSSL/3.0.13 zlib/1.3 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.7) libssh/0.10.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.59.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.7

Platform: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, ubuntu, wayland
OpenGL: Intel, Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2), 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.3

Build Info:
Date: Jan 22 2025 19:08:40
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.6.3
Curl: 8.5.0
ngspice: 43
Compiler: GCC 13.3.0 with C++ ABI 1018
KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale:
Lang: en_US
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1,234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

looks like gitlab issue 19772: EEschema pasting image does not embed image to schematic (#19772) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab