applet.py crashed with ImportError in <module>()

[Jack Wasey]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

The same bug seems to be reported, and fixed in previous releases. This just occurred to me in Jaunty alpha 5.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.1.3+git20090218-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py']
SourcePackage: system-config-printer
Title: applet.py crashed with ImportError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py", line 20, in <module>
     import cups
 ImportError: /usr/lib/libcups.so.2: file too short
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kqemu kvm lpadmin plugdev root sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #203808. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you run

sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cups

and see whether this solves the problem? In this case this bug would be the same as bug 335543.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Correction, can you run

sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cups.postinst

and see whether this solves the problem? In this case this bug would be the same as bug 335543.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Looks like a problem in with the transition to Python 2.6 in python-central, according to IRC discussion with mvo and DktrKranz.

[Jack Wasey (jackwasey)]

that command runs without problems with this version (jaunty today)

apt-cache policy python-cups
python-cups:
  Installed: 1.9.45-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.9.45-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.9.45-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Please do a full system update and test again. The problem should be fixed now.