f-spot crashes on start or just after

[ts]

starting f-spot from [alt]-[f2] it raises the window with some of the contained fields to crash after around 3-4 seconds. starting f-spot from a terminal it starts sometimes successfully, to then crash after around a minute, or it crashes directly with:

at FSpot.ColorManagement.AddProfiles (System.String path, IDictionary`2 profs) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[...]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: f-spot 0.8.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 30 14:49:01 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-17 (194 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: f-spot
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-07 (54 days ago)

[ts (toto-23)]

the exception when crashing after a while seems to usually be:

Exception in Gtk# callback delegate
  Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle the exception.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at FSpot.Widgets.SelectionCollectionGridView.OnKeyPressEvent (Gdk.EventKey evnt) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Gtk.Widget.keypressevent_cb (IntPtr widget, IntPtr evnt) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
   at GLib.ExceptionManager.RaiseUnhandledException(System.Exception e, Boolean is_terminal)
   at Gtk.Widget.keypressevent_cb(IntPtr widget, IntPtr evnt)
   at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
   at Gtk.Application.Run()
   at FSpot.Driver.Startup()
   at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup(Hyena.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup)
   at FSpot.Driver.Main(System.String[] args

hth