I'm not sure when the crash started since I haven't started gtkpod for a few weeks.  I tried rebuilding the src locally and the same crash occurs.  Here's the backtrace when run with gdb:

(gdb) bt
#0  lookup_section (section_name=section_name@entry=0x40e1c9 "Anjuta Plugin", df=0x14bff40, df=0x14bff40) at anjuta-plugin-description.c:703
#1  0x00007ffff790f952 in anjuta_plugin_description_get_raw (df=df@entry=0x14bff40, section_name=section_name@entry=0x40e1c9 "Anjuta Plugin", keyname=keyname@entry=0x40e1c4 "Name", 
    locale=0x159e500 "en_CA", val=val@entry=0x7fffffffd578) at anjuta-plugin-description.c:761
#2  0x00007ffff790fab7 in anjuta_plugin_description_get_locale_string (df=df@entry=0x14bff40, section=section@entry=0x40e1c9 "Anjuta Plugin", keyname=keyname@entry=0x40e1c4 "Name", 
    val=val@entry=0x7fffffffd578) at anjuta-plugin-description.c:898
#3  0x0000000000408b19 in about_create_plugins_submenu (shell=<optimized out>, menuitem=menuitem@entry=0x15937b0) at anjuta-about.c:255
#4  0x000000000040b8b7 in anjuta_app_instance_init (app=0x148a340) at anjuta-app.c:541
#5  0x00007ffff5a894cc in g_type_create_instance (type=<optimized out>) at gtype.c:1868
#6  0x00007ffff5a6ce05 in g_object_new_internal (class=class@entry=0x1484560, params=params@entry=0x7fffffffd8e0, n_params=n_params@entry=1) at gobject.c:1743
#7  0x00007ffff5a6ede6 in g_object_new_valist (object_type=object_type@entry=7668464, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x40e860 "title", 
    var_args=var_args@entry=0x7fffffffda38) at gobject.c:1999
#8  0x00007ffff5a6f3a4 in g_object_new (object_type=7668464, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0x40e860 "title") at gobject.c:1556
#9  0x000000000040d438 in anjuta_app_new () at anjuta-app.c:607
#10 0x000000000040dc06 in gtkpod_init (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdc98) at gtkpod.c:93
#11 0x000000000040801f in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdc98) at main.c:106