apport-gtk crashed with --- in _request()

[d1bro]

Binary package hint: apport

after I ran apport-collect -v -p synaptic 525569 on an up2date lucid system this problem occured.
it might be a duplicate of #516381 but i filled a new, since #516381 is talking about live-cd and is about a month old.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 23 17:41:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: apport-gtk 1.12.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -v -p synaptic 525569
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk', '-v', '-p', 'synaptic', '525569']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-gtk crashed with --- in _request()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #516381, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.