Audacity - works as root, not as user

Binary package hint: audacity

As a user:
audacity
Segmentation fault
Matters not if there is a .audacity-data in $HOME

As root - works fine.

And, well, that ain't right. 11.04. Used to work on same hardware in 10.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: audacity 1.3.13-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
AlsaCards:
 0 [I82801DBICH4 ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
                       Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at irq 11
 29 [ThinkPadEC ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
                       ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw unknown
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 5 08:04:05 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: audacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (4 days ago)