This bug was fixed upstream in commit [c34acb] "Fix crash in ps/pdf bitmap 
background import via ghostscript" on March 21, 2015.
https://sourceforge.net/p/xournal/code/ci/c34acb584baf71ef00086583b80d32f84e75bde0/

"Load background" for pdf's is a very poorly implemented feature and
should be removed soon from xournal or rewritten differently -- all it
does is convert the PDF to a medium-resolution PNG image to draw on top
of, rather than keep the pdf's contents.  So I don't recommend ever
using it anyway, at least if you plan on exporting or printing your
annotations. Most likely, you'll obtain better results if you only ever
use "annotate PDF" in the file menu (or open a PDF, as you call it), and
use pdf manipulation tools (e.g. pdfseparate / pdfunite) to make the pdf
file you need before opening it in case you want to draw on top of
multiple PDFs in a single xournal document.

Anyway: the crash problem itself has been fixed for a while.  Please ask
the Ubuntu maintainer to rebase the package on a more recent git/cvs
upstream version, or at least to incorporate the patch to src/xo-file.c
(or even simpler, change "rb" to "r" in the popen() call as reported on
bug #1275130. That and a tiny bit more is basically what the commit
listed above does).

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