thanks for pointing it out, I can't reproduce it however. My version just loads fine, can log in and operate normally.
What architecture and Ubuntu version are you on?
$ bitshares_client --version
{
"blockchain_name": "BitShares",
"blockchain_description": "The Future of Banking",
"client_version": "v0.4.24",
"bitshares_toolkit_revision": "377b57766dfa07e9a95952503217de31636ab9ee",
"bitshares_toolkit_revision_age": "51 hours ago",
"fc_revision": "e6b43a6149b8974ba1d3f683b9e01916a841c1de",
"fc_revision_age": "70 hours ago",
"compile_date": "compiled on Nov 12 2014 at 00:56:38",
"boost_version": "1.54",
"openssl_version": "OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014",
"build": "linux 32-bit"
}
EDIT: I see you are on utopic (14.10), I don't have that... so perhaps there's something there... I'll look into that