unity-tweak-tool crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv()

[Jeremiah Njoroge]

launched unity-tweak-tool from Dash and it crashed before any UI elements of the app showed up on screen.

similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-tweak-tool/+bug/1118896

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity-tweak-tool 0.0.2-0~74~raring1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-030800rc6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CrashDB: {"impl": "launchpad", "project": "unity-tweak-tool"}
Date: Mon Feb 11 09:47:13 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-tweak-tool
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-04 (38 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121016.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unity-tweak-tool
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: unity-tweak-tool
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.cpython-33m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.cpython-33m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
Title: unity-tweak-tool crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[dino99 (9d9)]

also found with the gnome tool:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-tweak-tool/+bug/1123372