I got this with 2.1.20 when I copied from a (pyanodons) chipshooter machine to a ghost chipshooter machine.
I was trying this after copying from the chipshooter machine to the constant combinator did nothing (and no failure message either)
The mod Copy-Paste Recipe Signals (1.7.1) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.
Error while running event copy-paste-recipe-signals::on_entity_settings_pasted (ID 39)
copy-paste-recipe-signals/copy_from.lua:214: attempt to call field 'filter' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
copy-paste-recipe-signals/copy_from.lua:214: in function 'copy_from'
copy-paste-recipe-signals/control.lua:48: in function <copy-paste-recipe-signals/control.lua:35>