run crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_keymap_get_direction()

Binary package hint: hwtest

hwtest-gtk needs root permissions, so I ran

as user: xhost +
as user: su -
as root: hwtest-gtk

If I obmit the "-" then no coredump happens, probably due to preserved environment.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 14 17:04:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/hwtest/run
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hwtest 0.1-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/share/hwtest/run /usr/share/hwtest/configs/hwtest-gtk.ini
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: hwtest
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb726e8b5 in gdk_keymap_get_direction ()
    from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 #1 0xb74ae43c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 #2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 gdk_keymap_get_direction ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: run crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_keymap_get_direction()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686
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