dell-launcher segfault on startup

I needed some updated library for development so I installed from source gnome-desktop-2.25.1.1 and the needed dependencies (glib-2.18.2 and gtk+-2.14.2). I also installed clutter-0.8 from source but I don't think it's related since as far as I can tell clutter-0.6 and 0.8 can coexist nicely.
Anyway now every time I start dell-launcher it doesn display anything and segfaults.
Here is the stacktrace, it lacks some symbol but I still didn't find which.. it seems similar to the one in https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/240421

Starting program: /usr/bin/dell-launcher
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6d00720 (LWP 14099)]
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: Font changed: DejaVu Sans Bold Semi-Condensed 10

** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: Font dpi: 96,000000
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: FRAMES=24 FPS=75

** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: New Category: Giochi
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: New Category: Impara
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: New Category: Intrattenimento
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: New Category: Produttività
** (dell-launcher:14099): DEBUG: New Category: Web

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb6d00720 (LWP 14099)]
0xb7f7d1eb in clutter_texture_bind_tile (texture=0x83c7380, index_=0) at clutter-texture.c:1828
1828 clutter-texture.c: No such file or directory.
 in clutter-texture.c
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7f7d1eb in clutter_texture_bind_tile (texture=0x83c7380, index_=0) at clutter-texture.c:1828
#1 0x0806c4fb in ?? ()
#2 0xb7f58702 in clutter_actor_paint (self=0x83fb898) at clutter-actor.c:1242
#3 0xb7f6a117 in clutter_group_paint (actor=0x83f4800) at clutter-group.c:103
#4 0xb7f58702 in clutter_actor_paint (self=0x83f4800) at clutter-actor.c:1242
#5 0xb7f6a117 in clutter_group_paint (actor=0x83c71d0) at clutter-group.c:103
#6 0xb7f58702 in clutter_actor_paint (self=0x83c71d0) at clutter-actor.c:1242
#7 0xb7f6a117 in clutter_group_paint (actor=0x83c4018) at clutter-group.c:103
#8 0xb7f58702 in clutter_actor_paint (self=0x83c4018) at clutter-actor.c:1242
#9 0xb7f6a117 in clutter_group_paint (actor=0x80b6090) at clutter-group.c:103
#10 0xb7f7b32c in clutter_stage_paint (self=0x80b6090) at clutter-stage.c:112
#11 0xb7f58702 in clutter_actor_paint (self=0x80b6090) at clutter-actor.c:1242
#12 0xb7f82fb1 in clutter_backend_glx_redraw (backend=0x809d040) at clutter-backend-glx.c:343
#13 0xb7f5b038 in _clutter_backend_redraw (backend=0x83c7410) at clutter-backend.c:171
#14 0xb7f6e6d7 in clutter_redraw () at clutter-main.c:159
#15 0xb7f8bb50 in clutter_stage_x11_show (actor=0x80b6090) at clutter-stage-x11.c:120
#16 0xb766de9c in IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x8079600, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1,
    param_values=0x80755c8, invocation_hint=0xbfa8531c, marshal_data=0xb7f8bb30) at gmarshal.c:77
#17 0xb7660287 in g_type_class_meta_marshal (closure=0x8079600, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x80755c8,
    invocation_hint=0xbfa8531c, marshal_data=0x44) at gclosure.c:878
#18 0xb766191d in IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x8079600, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x80755c8,
    invocation_hint=0xbfa8531c) at gclosure.c:767
#19 0xb7674cb1 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x80b1160, detail=0, instance=0x80b6090, emission_return=0x0,
    instance_and_params=0x80755c8) at gsignal.c:3174
#20 0xb7676ca8 in IA__g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x80b6090, signal_id=9, detail=0,
    var_args=0xbfa8552c "\0323��\030@<\bp\221;\bHW��\220\030\005\b\220`\v\b") at gsignal.c:2977
#21 0xb7676fde in IA__g_signal_emit (instance=0x80b6090, signal_id=9, detail=0) at gsignal.c:3034
#22 0xb7f5334a in clutter_actor_show (self=0x80b6090) at clutter-actor.c:327
#23 0x08051890 in ?? ()
#24 0xb742f440 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#25 0x08051171 in ?? ()

For completeness, ume-launcher still works fine.