upowerd crashed with signal 5 in g_type_create_instance()

[TJ Rothwell]

Booted from 11.10 x86 32bit cd and had many apps have crash reports.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: upower 0.9.13-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sat Dec 3 19:51:58 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
ProcEnviron:

Signal: 5
SourcePackage: upower
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: upowerd crashed with signal 5 in g_type_create_instance()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 up_polkit_init (polkit=0x867a248) at up-polkit.c:255
 g_type_create_instance (type=141062760) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gtype.c:1885
 g_object_constructor (type=141062760, n_construct_properties=0, construct_params=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gobject.c:1629
 g_object_newv (object_type=141062760, n_parameters=0, parameters=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gobject.c:1412
 g_object_new (object_type=141062760, first_property_name=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gobject.c:1322