pycentral crashed with NameError in run(): global name 'arch' is not defined

[Johnny Rivera]

Upgrading from 11.10 OneiricOcelot to 12.04 Precise.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: python-central 0.6.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 15 07:45:01 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pycentral
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/pycentral rtremove python2.6
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pycentral', 'rtremove', 'python2.6']
SourcePackage: python-central
Title: pycentral crashed with NameError in run(): global name 'arch' is not defined
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-15 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Johnny, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python-central into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-central - 0.6.17ubuntu2

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python-central (0.6.17ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix pycentral rtremove command. LP: #955936.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:08:13 +0200

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Matthias, this is still showing up at the top of the list of crashes in the crashdb. Can you provide a step-by-step test case that we can use to check if it's fixed? Simply removing python2.6 from my system doesn't trigger the crash for me.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Manually reproduced the initial bug this way:

 - install python2.6 from a previous release on precise.
 - install the python-vm-builder package.
 - sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-vm-builder.list
 - sudo apt-get purge python2.6 python2.6-minimal

 - reinstalled python2.6, installed python-central from precise-proposed, confirmed that the crash is resolved.
 - removed python-vm-builder to clean up.

So I think this should be promoted to precise-updates ASAP.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Agreed Steve, this is a simple change and I would judge it as *very* low regression potential. Releasing to updates now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-central - 0.6.17ubuntu2

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python-central (0.6.17ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix pycentral rtremove command. LP: #955936.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:08:13 +0200