mate-terminal won't start if no system monospace font is set

[mindoms]

mate-terminal dies immediatly with:
Floating point exception (core dumped)

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, usually with the gnome-3 fallback mode.
I've just installed mate from this source:
"deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu precise main"

... and startet the mate session.

solution:

1. run mate-appearance-properties
2. Fonts->Fixed-width-font was not set
3. Setting some (monospace) font enables the terminal to start

Some fallback would be nice.

--- system info:
$ apt-cache policy mate-terminal
mate-terminal:
Installed: 1.6.0-1+precise
Candidate: 1.6.0-1+precise
Version table:
*** 1.6.0-1+precise 0
500 http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

-- end of the strace output:

stat64("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-khmeros-core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/0d8c3b2ac0904cb8a57a757ad11a4a08-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2224, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 2224, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb4849000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-punjabi-fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/e7071f4a29fa870f4323321c154eba04-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2208, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 2208, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb4848000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/2cd17615ca594fa2959ae173292e504c-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10272, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 10272, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb4845000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/99e8ed0e538f840c565b6ed5dad60d56-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5128, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 5128, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb4843000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/945677eb7aeaf62f1d50efc3fb3ec7d8-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24160, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 24160, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb483d000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/c05880de57d1f5e948fdfacc138775d9-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1144, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1144, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0) = 0xb483c000
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/var/cache/fontconfig/6333f38776742d18e214673cd2c24e34-le32d4.cache-3", O_RDONLY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=88, ...}) = 0
read(10, "\4\374\2\374\3\0\0\0X\0\0\0 \0\0\0H\0\0\0\0\0\0\0H\0\0\0p\340\232P"..., 88) = 88
close(10) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9876, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 10
read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\n\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9876, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 12700, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0xb4838000
mmap2(0xb483a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x1) = 0xb483a000
close(10) = 0
mprotect(0xb483a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansMono.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 10
fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=117072, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 117072, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 10, 0) = 0xb481b000
close(10) = 0
--- SIGFPE (Floating point exception) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGFPE (core dumped) +++
Floating point exception (core dumped)