Hugin aborts on startup

[geopsychic]

I am on Ubuntu. I have used Hugin intermittently, the last time I can find for sure was in August 2012. Hugin used to work but after some system update (I don't know which) it crashes after the splash screen comes up. I uninstalled Hugin and reinstalled. It still crashes. Otherwise the system patches are up to date.

Ubuntu 12.04
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9000 @ 2.00GHz × 4
64 bit

/usr/share/hugin/data/plugins/shooting_pattern.py
   CAT:initial distribution
   NAM:6-1-1 Shooting Pattern
   fails @api-max
/usr/share/hugin/data/plugins/woa.py
   CAT:Control Points
   NAM:Warped Overlap Analysis
   fails @api-max
/usr/share/hugin/data/plugins/crop_cp.py
   CAT:Control Points
   NAM:Crop Control Points
   fails @api-max
/usr/share/hugin/data/plugins/top_five.py
   CAT:Control Points
   NAM:keep 5 CPs per image pair
   fails @api-max
The program 'hugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 1159 error_code 1 request_code 153 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I assume the X Window error is the source of the abort. I don't know enough about the program to know if the api-max messages are relevant to the crash.

[tmodes (tmodes)]

Which Hugin version? Try at least the last released version 2013.0.

[geopsychic (geopsychic)]

It appears I have hugin 2011.4.0+dfsg-1.

I reinstalled from the Ubuntu Software Center on 2014-03-25.

I will try compiling from source.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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