package errors [jaunty] python. SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string

[MustangSallydd]

Updates today, encountered this output in terminal (I see two different errors):
Setting up powernowd (1.00-1ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/powernowd ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/powernowd.early missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
 * Starting powernowd... * CPU frequency scaling not supported... [ OK ]

Setting up samba-common (2:3.2.5-1ubuntu1) ...
Replacing config file /etc/samba/smb.conf with new version

Setting up smbclient (2:3.2.5-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up winbind (2:3.2.5-1ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [ OK ]

Setting up transmission-common (1.40-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up transmission-gtk (1.40-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up tsclient (0.150-1ubuntu4) ...

Setting up xterm (237-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up accerciser (1.5.2-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up firefox-3.1-branding (3.1~b2+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kdelibs-bin (4:4.1.80-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up firefox-3.1 (3.1~b2+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart all running instances of firefox-3.1, or you will experience problems.

Setting up firefox-3.1-dev (3.1~b2+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up firefox-3.1-gnome-support (3.1~b2+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up kdelibs5 (4:4.1.80-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 (4:4.1.80-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kdebase-runtime (4:4.1.80-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up khelpcenter4 (4:4.1.80-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Compiling /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py ...
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py", line 179
    """Returns a list of utterances that describe

^
SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string

EDIT:
I ran your code and all that came looked good:

dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ sudo apt-get install
[sudo] password for dougie:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You seem to have quite a few updates installing at the same time in your report. Could you please run "sudo apt-get install" again (I do expect errors) and paste the output of that? I am hoping that the output will give a little more detail with the specific package it is having problems with.

* Marking incomplete pending enough information to complete triage.

[MustangSallydd (dougiesta-aol)]

Today 12/4/08 ran 2 updates and the error message came out, therefore it can be narrowed down to the following, hope this helps:

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main python-gnome2-extras 2.19.1-0ubuntu13 [173kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main python-gtkhtml2 2.19.1-0ubuntu13 [26.7kB]
Fetched 200kB in 1s (150kB/s)
(Reading database ... 234154 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-gnome2-extras 2.19.1-0ubuntu11 (using .../python-gnome2-extras_2.19.1-0ubuntu13_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-gnome2-extras ...
Preparing to replace python-gtkhtml2 2.19.1-0ubuntu11 (using .../python-gtkhtml2_2.19.1-0ubuntu13_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-gtkhtml2 ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Compiling /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py ...
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py", line 179
    """Returns a list of utterances that describe

^
SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string

Setting up python-gnome2-extras (2.19.1-0ubuntu13) ...

Setting up python-gtkhtml2 (2.19.1-0ubuntu13) ...

Processing triggers for python-support ...
Compiling /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py ...
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/orca/speechgenerator.py", line 179
    """Returns a list of utterances that describe

^
SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string

dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

* Assigning to python-gtk2 for now ... Note that this is related to jaunty

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

The file in question is in gnome-orca. It also does not have the problem that the error would indicate, so something was done that has modified it from the version we ship.

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

To the original reporter. What version of gnome-orca are you dealing with? If this is a jaunty issue there is a possibility that this might have been resolved by now. I wish to test this when I get home so could you also let me know what steps you took to originally produce the error?

Thanks,

Richard Seguin

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Is this still an issue with latest Jaunty updates, which has gnome-orca 2.26?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

It has been a while since we requested some information from you regarding this bug, could you please let us know whether this bug is still a problem for you?

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-orca (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]