ubuntustudio-controls crashed with AttributeError in <module>()

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Binary package hint: ubuntustudio-controls

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

ubuntustudio-controls:
  Installed: 0.3
  Candidate: 0.3
  Version table:
 *** 0.3 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

UbuntuStudio Controls crashes immediately on startup, and appears to leave some kind of lock file in place - subsequent runs of the program result in an error message 'Only one instance of Ubuntu Studio Controls can be run at a time'

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubuntustudio-controls
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubuntustudio-controls 0.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubuntustudio-controls
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubuntustudio-controls']
SourcePackage: ubuntustudio-controls
Title: ubuntustudio-controls crashed with AttributeError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/ubuntustudio-controls", line 184, in <module>
     uscontrols.serialize_settings()
 AttributeError: Uscontrols instance has no attribute 'serialize_settings'
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic i686
UserGroups: