synaptic crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

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Startup:
Enter Password:
Synaptic GUI appears and immediately crashes.

Software Center does not start-up, period.
Software Center's Icon waxes and wanes brightness then stops, it never shows anything on-screen,

synaptic-pkexec : PID 2512

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.17-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg.txt:
 [ 19.345981] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up
 [ 19.346198] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
 [ 22.581647] show_signal_msg: 36 callbacks suppressed
 [ 22.581653] vino-server[1555]: segfault at 6568637f ip 0103a0c0 sp bf810eec error 4 in libc-2.13.so[fc6000+179000]
 [ 30.232028] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Sat Jan 21 10:34:02 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCmdline: synaptic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-21 (1 days ago)
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