Comment 8 for bug 155927

a bit more digging uncovered this:

Hildon Accessibility Module initialized

** ERROR **: file accessible.c: line 554 (spi_accessible_construct): assertion failed: (o)
aborting...

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread -1227409744 (LWP 24587)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) where
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb717c875 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb717e201 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3 0xb7459f4a in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0xb7459f89 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb745a006 in g_assert_warning () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0xb6ad77f2 in spi_accessible_construct () from /usr/lib/libspi.so.0
#7 0xb6ad86c2 in spi_application_new () from /usr/lib/libspi.so.0
#8 0xb6c4877f in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
#9 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

here are the relevant lines from http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/at-spi/trunk/annotate/vcs-imports%40canonical.com-20071115183048-fvvqhx4ssia77dm5?file_id=libspiaccessible.c-20071008164538-4qprwj1cg939hp12-35

545 SpiAccessible *
546 spi_accessible_construct (GType type, AtkObject *o)
547 {
548 SpiAccessible *retval;
549 CORBA_Environment ev;
550
551 CORBA_exception_init (&ev);
552
553 g_assert (o);
554 g_assert (g_type_is_a (type, SPI_ACCESSIBLE_TYPE));