update-apt-xapian-index crashed with ImportError in /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py: No module named gmenu

[Curtis Hovey]

I had just completed an update using update-manager, logged out, then logged in to be greeted with the message about the failure.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.44ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic-pae 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 19 23:58:27 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --update -q
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '--update', '-q']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with ImportError in /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py: No module named gmenu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-19 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Running
    sudo /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --update -q
completes I can also import gmenu from any python process.
gnome-menus is version 3.0.1-0ubuntu5.

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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 #827959, 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.