package python-gi 3.14.0-1 failed to install/upgrade, when importing ConfigParser: ValueError: bad marshal data

[EricL]

Upgradingfrom14.04 to 14.10.
Failed to update python-gi.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: python-gi 3.14.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-45.74-generic 3.13.11-ckt13
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-45-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 14 17:14:11 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:python-gi:3.14.0-1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-20 (300 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
SourcePackage: pygobject
Title: package python-gi 3.14.0-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2015-02-14 (0 days ago)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That's the error:

Setting up python-gi (3.14.0-1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 35, in <module>
    from debpython.version import SUPPORTED, debsorted, vrepr, \
  File "/usr/share/python/debpython/version.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
ValueError: bad marshal data (string ref out of range)

This looks like an error in Python itself, reassigning.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing this, not reproducible, and didn't show up anymore within the last two years