I am also affected by this bug.
I have tried running gsmartcontrol from console, using --no-scan option;
this allowed the program to start normally.
Next, I added all devices, one by one, trying different methods (ata,
scsi, sat,...)
I noticed that the problem occurs when I select SCSI, on devices which
do not support that method (eg, an ata disk). Selecting the correct
method (ata), or even other wrong ones, does not cause the crash. I
don't have, now, devices which use the scsi method, so I can't tell you
whether SCSI works on SCSI-using devices. Anyway, it appears that the
problem lies in the SCSI protocol (which is apparently tested for
devices during the auto-scan)
Besides, downgrading this package to stable did not help, so I guess the
bug has come out from some upgrade in some different package (no clue
which one)?
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