MASTER: system-config-printer.py crashed with SystemError in main()

[Rusty]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

After upgrade to kernel 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64, attempts to launch system-config-printer result in crash. System recently upgraded, may be related to updates to kernel libraries.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.0.5+git20080819-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: python /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py']
SourcePackage: system-config-printer
Title: system-config-printer.py crashed with SystemError in main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Tim, can you look into this? It seems that some Python library APIs in Ubuntu Intrepid have changed with a recent update and now system-config-printer does not start at all under Intrepid.

[Neil Brown (u-launchpad-twistedsquare-com)]

I also encountered this problem on Intrepid, but on a 32-bit x86 CPU (i.e. doesn't like it's the 64-bit that's causing the problem)

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This problem seems to be caused by a bug in python-gobject, as with an update pulling a new python-gobject package (2.15.3-0ubuntu3) the problem disappeared.