gwibber-service crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/resources.py: No module named Image

[Sundaravenkataraman]

I got this error immediately after log-in, while I restarted my system requested by update manager after completing its process...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gwibber-service 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-3.7-generic 3.8.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-3-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Feb 1 09:35:09 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber-service
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-30 (307 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber-service
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gwibber-service']
SourcePackage: gwibber
Title: gwibber-service crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/resources.py: No module named Image
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-16 (15 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[jdstrydom (jdstrydom)]

same for 64bit system

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Looks like top-level Image is not installed by PIL,

So the patch would be to change "import Image" to "from PIL import Image"

[Roberto Alsina (ralsina)]

Just in case, the recommended way to portably import PIL:

try:
    from PIL import Image
except ImportError:
    import Image

Depending on PIL version, and the way it's installed, one or the other will work.

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Okay, updated the patch following Roberto suggestion.

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[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

marking as duplicate of bug 1112496 until we have an answer if this is an intentional change or a bug in the current package