checkbox-gtk crashes upon opening

[John Wooley]

Binary package hint: checkbox

When launching checkbox-gtk from the drop-down menu (System ->Administration->System Testing), the mouse pointercircles for a few seconds then nothing. The application fails to launch.

When I launch checkbox-gtk from terminal, I get a python error:

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/run", line 21, in <module>
    import posixpath
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 13, in <module>
    import os
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 120, in <module>
    from os.path import (curdir, pardir, sep, pathsep, defpath, extsep, altsep,
ImportError: cannot import name curdir

Ubuntu 10.04LTS amd64

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Are you still experiencing this problem?
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

The fact that (looking at the trace you provide) your Python interpreter is unable to import curdir makes me think there could be something odd about your Python installation. Also, a failure of that caliber (the os module in Python) would also affect a lot of other programs in your system.

What happens if you run a Python interpreter in a terminal and type:

from os.path import curdir; curdir

?

It would also be useful if you could post the output of this command:

apt-cache policy python2.6

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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