The error message marmuta generated is the exact message I was seeing. Sorry for not including that in my bug report -- it was late last night and a little bleary-eyed.
I removed the onboard package entirely to get around the problem, I don't know why I had it installed in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123789 Title: onboard.convert causes gsettings-data-convert to crash Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When onboard is installed, running gsettings-data-convert manually on Precise causes the converter to crash after reporting a problem with the 'x' key in apps.onboard. After uninstalling onboard, gsettings-data-convert runs fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1123789/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp