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

[roadrunner777]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

I have a network printer which is unavailable right now. I suspect that it is trying to contact it and it is crashing from some wait for printer ready loop.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
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:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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 i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare