As Rainer pointed out, this could be the same as the bug I reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275130 (sorry for the duplication). I always get a segfault when trying to load a pdf as background. I fixed the bug in my recompiled xournal copy, as specified in that bug report.
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