ubuntuone-client-preferences crashed with IOError in save_config()

[Danny Howard]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

System > Preference > Ubuntu One yields this crash report.

1-23:28 djh@noneedto ~$ ls -la .cache
total 60
drwx------ 9 djh djh 4096 2009-10-03 23:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 128 djh djh 12288 2009-10-03 23:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 djh djh 12288 2009-10-03 23:21 event-sound-cache.tdb.23a3e770a47113f7c407bc0046a21d4e.i486-pc-linux-gnu
drwxr-xr-x 2 djh djh 4096 2009-06-27 02:03 gedit
-rw-r--r-- 1 djh djh 238 2009-10-03 23:26 notify-osd.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 djh djh 4096 2009-09-17 15:27 postr
drwx------ 2 djh djh 4096 2009-10-03 23:17 sessions
drwx------ 2 djh djh 4096 2009-08-14 16:49 Thunar
drwxr-xr-x 3 djh djh 4096 2009-05-03 23:40 totem
drwxr-xr-x 4 djh djh 4096 2009-10-03 23:30 ubuntuone
drwx------ 2 djh djh 4096 2009-05-25 00:38 vlc
0-23:31 djh@noneedto ~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
1-23:33 djh@noneedto ~$ aptitude show ubuntuone-client
Package: ubuntuone-client
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.96.0-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 471k
Depends: python-ubuntuone-client (= 0.96.0-0ubuntu1), python-configglue,
         python-apport
Conflicts: nautilus-ubuntuone, ubuntuone-oauth-login, ubuntuone-storagefs
Replaces: nautilus-ubuntuone, ubuntuone-oauth-login, ubuntuone-storagefs
Description: Ubuntu One client
 Ubuntu One is a suite of on-line services. This package contains the
 synchronization daemon for the Ubuntu One file sharing service.
Homepage: https://ubuntuone.com

3) I expected to launch a control panel.

4) It crashed and helped me file this bug.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 3 23:30:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubuntuone-client-gnome 0.96.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences']
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Title: ubuntuone-client-preferences crashed with IOError in save_config()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

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 #441039, 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.