for some reason my post is triggering a spam filter and i cant submit it but here is the original thread and my fix is below.
http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/any-rendering-crashes
fixed this by downgrading as well. changed from the kdenlive-svn to kdenlive-release ppa and did an apt-get update
only downgraded mlt from 0.7.7 to 0.7.6 and rendering started working again
