qgis.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in initgui()

[Vit]

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

qgis:
  Installed: 1.4.0+12730-5ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.4.0+12730-5ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.0+12730-5ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected: qgis to start
Happened: qgis crashed with core dumped

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: qgis-plugin-grass 1.4.0+12730-5ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Feb 29 16:12:28 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qgis.bin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/qgis.bin
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f6c057ebe28: addq $0x1,(%rax)
 PC (0x7f6c057ebe28) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: qgis
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sip.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sip.so
 initgui () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/gui.so
 _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule () from /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
Title: qgis.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in initgui()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-02 (57 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

More recent qgis revisions in Ubuntu don't have this issue any more.