In iOS6 in the methods viewControllerAfterViewController and viewControllerBeforeViewController if I return nil (for block the page navigation when I am in the first or last page) the app crash with this exception:
‘The number of view controllers provided (0) doesn’t match the number required (1) for the requested transition’
In iOS5 all works good.
I had the same issue. I found that the cause was replacing the delegate on the UIPanGestureRecognizer of the UIPageViewController, a no-no really. The pan gesture recognizer was calling an undocumented method _gestureRecognizerShouldBegin: (note the leading underscore) that UIPageViewController implements and apparently relies upon to work properly (read: not-crash). I ended up implementing respondsToSelector: and forwardingTargetForSelector: in my class that uses the UIPageViewController to pass the undocumented delegate method on to the UIPageViewController without specifically naming it (and almost certainly earning me an app store review rejection).
My longer term solution will be to rework the use of UIPageViewController such that I don’t need to displace the gesture recognizer delegates.