gdesklets-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref()

Binary package hint: gdesklets

Starting either from menu or command line, nothing happens, cpu load increases for a second then levels off.

Hardy, up to date
gdesklets installed via aptitude

Command line reports:
marc@server:~$ gdesklets
Starting gdesklets-daemon...
Connected to daemon in 612 milliseconds.

==========================================================[04/16/08-00:05:02]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 393 <module>
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 268 parse_command
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 177 __open_profile
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 167 __client_daemon
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 208 set_remove_command
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 38 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---] 70 chunk = ""
[---] 71 while (True):
[---] 72 try:
[---] 73 length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---] 74 except:
[ERR]> 75 raise XDRError
[---] 76
[---] 77 if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---] 78
[---] 79 flag = s.recv(1)
[---] 80 if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---] 81

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 15 23:43:50 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdesklets 0.36-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gdesklets
StacktraceTop:
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/tiling.so
 ?? ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
Title: gdesklets-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64
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