When the most recently executed plug-in is a filter requiring one or more drawables as maps, if you eliminate, after the execution of the plug-in, at least one of the drawables which was selected on its last settings, then the "Repeat Last" command will fail, by returning various error messages.

Here is a list of the filters affected by this bug:

under the section "Light and Shadow":
    "Lighting Effects"

under the section "Combine":
    "Depth Merge"
    "Filmstrip"

under the section "Artistic":
    "Oilify"
    "Van Gogh" (LIC)

under the section "Map":
    "Bump Map"
    "Displace"
    "Warp"


Referring, for instance, to the "Warp" filter, the problem I have just reported can be reproduced by following these steps:

1) create a new image;
2) duplicate the layer named "Background", so as to get a second layer named "Background copy";
3) launch the "Warp" filter through 'Filters -> Map -> Warp...' ;
4) as a displacement map, select the "Background" layer in the drop-down list provided;
5) execute the filter;
6) remove the "Background" layer from the image;
7) run 'Filters -> Repeat "Warp"'.

As a result, several error messages will be displayed, some of which redirected to 'stderr'.

Unlike the afore-mentioned plug-ins, there is a filter that, while using drawables as maps too, however seems always to work properly when invoking it through the "Repeat Last" command, even in the specific case described above: it is the "Flame" filter (under the 'Render -> Nature' submenu), which is fitted with the "Colormap" option, allowing to exploit the colors of any drawable currently open in the GIMP session. So I think it might be useful to refer to the source code of this plug-in in order to devise a patch capable to fix this bug, which involves all the other filters of the similar kind.