oneconf-service crashed with IndexError in i32(): string index out of range

Getting repeated messages about oneconf crashing suddenly.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
$ apt-cache policy oneconf
oneconf:
  Installed: 0.2.6.7
  Candidate: 0.2.6.7
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.6.7 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What you expected to happen?
- No error message

What happened instead?
- repeated error messages

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: oneconf 0.2.6.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 27 01:37:30 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-service
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.3)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-service
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-service']
SourcePackage: oneconf
Title: oneconf-service crashed with IndexError in i32(): string index out of range
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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