Lua: trying to get/access a Preference before its registered causes a segfault

This issue was migrated from bug 9853 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: Hadriel Kaplan
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wireshark
Component: GTK+ UI
OS: All
Platform: All
Version: 1.10.6

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