espeak-gui crashed at startup with SIGSEGV in Py_BuildValue()

[Veet Moha]

Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10 updated on 27th of Sept.

espeak-gui:
  Installed: 0.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The eSpeak speech synthesizer crashes every time I am trying to open it.
Icon in Launcher suggests the application start, and then stops without any change.
This time is the first time the crash report dialog window appeared.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: espeak-gui 0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Sep 27 08:50:02 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/espeak-gui/espeak-gui
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110919)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/espeak-gui
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4d8fbb: repnz scas %es:(%rdi),%al
 PC (0x004d8fbb) ok
 source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x7fcb00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: espeak-gui
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 Py_BuildValue ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/espeak/core.so
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
Title: espeak-gui crashed with SIGSEGV in Py_BuildValue()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 do_mkvalue (p_format=<optimized out>, p_va=0x7fffdf4a9810, flags=<optimized out>) at ../Python/modsupport.c:419
 do_mkdict (flags=0, n=12, p_va=0x7fffdf4a9810, p_format=0x7fffdf4a9828, endchar=<optimized out>) at ../Python/modsupport.c:180
 do_mkvalue (p_format=0x7fffdf4a9828, p_va=0x7fffdf4a9810, flags=0) at ../Python/modsupport.c:306
 va_build_value (flags=0, va=0x7fffdf4a97f8, format=<optimized out>) at ../Python/modsupport.c:537
 Py_BuildValue (format=<optimized out>) at ../Python/modsupport.c:485

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.