Haven't done testing beyond following the steps, and no crash here. As a note, there is a report on loading the file that a dwg object is missing, not sure if that object could be involved in some way in the crash. Also, just to confirm the set up, there is mean to be a really small region defined for the rendering on loading and clicking render? (Note, it does render fine even if I delete the region and render the whole image).
Note, I was testing with the latest daily build.