InvalidArgsError in gcalcli

[Brendan]

-- System info ---

 $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

$ apt-cache policy gcalcli
gcalcli:
  Installed: 2.4.2-2
  Candidate: 2.4.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.2-2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ python --version
Python 2.7.6

$ apt-cache policy python-parsedatetime
python-parsedatetime:
  Installed: 1.1.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.1.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

--- Bug ---

Gcalcli crashes during initialisation of the parsedatetime Python module:

$ gcalcli
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 392, in <module>
    class gcalcli:
  File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 410, in gcalcli
    dateParser = DateTimeParser()
  File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 335, in __init__
    self.pdtCalendar = parsedatetime.Calendar();
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime/__init__.py", line 216, in __init__
    self.ptc = Constants()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime/__init__.py", line 1733, in __init__
    self.locale = pdtLocales['icu'](self.localeID)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime/pdt_locales.py", line 151, in __init__
    self.icu = pyicu.Locale(localeID)
icu.InvalidArgsError: (<type 'icu.Locale'>, '__init__', (None,))

Doesn't make any difference how you run it since it crashes when the class gets loaded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gcalcli 2.4.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 26 01:03:05 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-02 (115 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gcalcli
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Mark Ferree (markferree)]

I was getting the same error.

I found the following bug report for parsedatetime library which seems to be the culprit here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parsedatetime/+bug/1302963

Removing the ubuntu installed python-parsedatetime and using the pip version (1.4) of that library resolved this issue for me.