nvidia-settings complains about xorg.conf being incomplete then segfaults

Binary package hint: nvidia-settings

You will get the following error message:

Failed to parse existing X config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'!

Then in the terminal, you will get:

VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
At least one Device section is required.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 24 16:47:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-settings 180.25-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1411): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1411): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1444): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1470): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1925): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed