For details see here: https://www.klayout.de/forum/discussion/2824/trace-path-bugfix-2201-now-causes-trace-net-to-fail#latest
Seems like the patch from 0.30.5 does not fix the real issue.
The patch fixes a few things:
- Selecting a shape from below the top level hierarchy did not work
- Inactive shapes (in a sense of not being part of the stack) could hide "real shapes"
- The message about clicking the next point disappeared when other messages are shown and had a lifetime of 10s. Now it's shown permanently until the operation is finished or aborted.