openni_camera crash while using kinect

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I recently updated all my machines, and cannot seem to run the openni driver with the kinect anymore (tested across 2 different fuerte/precise machines and 2 different kinects). openni_camera is currently crashing for me:

lab@pharos:/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/openni_camera$ rosrun openni_camera openni_node 
[ INFO] [1348261427.280555252]: Initializing nodelet with 4 worker threads.
[ INFO] [1348261428.529849944]: Number devices connected: 1
[ INFO] [1348261428.530277093]: 1. device on bus 001:22 is a Xbox NUI Camera (2ae) from Microsoft (45e) with serial id 'B00361606879048B'
[ WARN] [1348261428.544275381]: ~device_id is not set! Using first device.
openni_node: /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:412: boost::shared_ptr<T>::reference boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator*() const [with T = xn::NodeInfo, boost::shared_ptr<T>::reference = xn::NodeInfo&]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

The gdb output on the deb binary has a few inconsistencies, so I built openni_camera from source after setting the build type to "Debug". The output from gdb:

lab@pharos:~/ros/openni_camera$ gdb bin/openni_node 
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2) 7.4-2012.04
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /home/lab/ros/openni_camera/bin/openni_node...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/lab/ros/openni_camera/bin/openni_node 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff0e8e700 (LWP 10296)]
[New Thread 0x7fffebfff700 (LWP 10297)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeb7fe700 (LWP 10298)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeaffd700 (LWP 10299)]
[New Thread 0x7fffea7fc700 (LWP 10300)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe9ffb700 (LWP 10301)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe97fa700 (LWP 10302)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe8ff9700 (LWP 10303)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd3fff700 (LWP 10304)]
[ INFO] [1348263432.503205958]: Initializing nodelet with 4 worker threads.
[New Thread 0x7fffd37fe700 (LWP 10305)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd24bb700 (LWP 10306)]
[ INFO] [1348263436.242376429]: Number devices connected: 1
[ INFO] [1348263436.242814823]: 1. device on bus 001:26 is a Xbox NUI Camera (2ae) from Microsoft (45e) with serial id 'B00361606879048B'
[ WARN] [1348263436.253906179]: ~device_id is not set! Using first device.
openni_node: /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:412: boost::shared_ptr<T>::reference boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator*() const [with T = xn::NodeInfo, boost::shared_ptr<T>::reference = xn::NodeInfo&]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffd24bb700 (LWP 10306)]
0x00007ffff6d7b445 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff6d7b445 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff6d7ebab in abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff6d7410e in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff6d741b2 in __assert_fail () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#4  0x00007fffe8121535 in boost::shared_ptr<xn::NodeInfo>::operator* (this=0x7fffb801f2c8)
    at /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:412
#5  0x00007fffe811ddb2 in openni_wrapper::OpenNIDriver::getDeviceByIndex (this=0x7ffff068d220, index=0)
    at /home/lab ...