lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[malus]

happened upon boot of installed system

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lsb-release 4.0-0ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 16 18:44:43 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/lsb_release
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: lsb
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 Py_FatalError ()
 ?? ()
 Py_InitializeEx ()
Title: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-15 (8 days ago)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 Py_FatalError (msg=<optimized out>) at ../Python/pythonrun.c:2142
 initfsencoding (interp=<optimized out>) at ../Python/pythonrun.c:749
 Py_InitializeEx (install_sigs=1) at ../Python/pythonrun.c:297
 Py_Main (argc=3, argv=0x284c010) at ../Modules/main.c:597
 main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff07b603d8) at ../Modules/python.c:59

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fila Kolodny (fila)]

Also happened while installing Vmware Workstation.