software-properties-gtk crashed with SystemError in <module>()

Bug #263767 reported by Susan Cragin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-properties (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In a terminal I opened Synaptic package manager and tried to access "repositories" from the drop-down menu. The program crashed once, froze once.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.65ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 44040321
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '44040321']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with SystemError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 35, in <module>
     gtk.gdk.threads_init()
 SystemError: error return without exception set
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
UserGroups:

Tags: apport-crash
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Susan Cragin (susancragin) wrote :
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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote :

Hi there Diogo,

I can acces the page now, but I could not acces it yesterday. Please see screenshot.

Thanks, Thomas.

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Antonio Riva (antonio-riva) wrote :
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Antonio Riva (antonio-riva) wrote :

downgrade to python-gobject_2.15.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb solve my problem

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Kai Mast (kai-mast) wrote :

i have the same problem.

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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

Todats update sees to have fixed mine.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote :

Hi I also got the message: obsolete package - python-gobject. I had just upgraded the kernel to linux-image-2.6.27-2.3-generic, from 2.6.27-2.2-generic. I was just about to burn an APTonCD image, because last time I clicked restart, to upgrade from 2.6.27-2.1 to 2.6.27-2.3, I ran into the reboot failure. I am fairly in the dark still about what might have caused it, although I read something about firmware being installed in the wrong folder. . Anyway, I removed the KVM and fuse package through synaptic, as well as timidity and sun-java6-doc, since they gave me problems. When I checked in synaptic to make sure my applications were up to date, I ran into this bug again. I decided to try and reinstall python-gobject before burning my APTonCD image and rebooting. Big mistake. WARNING: do not run '$ sudo apt-get -t etch-backports --reinstall install python-gobject' after having upgraded to 2.6.27-2.3 manually, and before rebooting. I had done apt-get source and build-dep before on the python-gobject package. When I entered the malicious reinstall comment, all python-gobject depending packages were removed and not reinstalled. I don't recall all of them, anyway: gnome-terminal, GNOME Display Manager, startupmanager, all core applications. There was no way to reboot from hard disk, although I have not given it to much priority, since I had to repartition my hard disk anyway. I am now backing up from the live CD and I will try to recover apt-cache, since I only have 8.10 alfa 3 and a hardy APTonCD image of nearly 1 GB. I will also recover my /var/crash directory, Anyway, I only have USB1 gates, so I am pretty much toast here, since it's a 112 GB main partition. I will do a reinstall without formatting, but I still have to transfer some other stuff also. I am not coming home early tonight, although I am already there, Please be smarter than me guys. For most linux adepts not a real problem I suppose, but anyway ...

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Oli (oli) wrote :

Fixed.

Changed in software-properties:
status: New → Fix Released
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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Excuse me? Which package was updated to fix this issue?

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Oli (oli) wrote :

A few:
2008-09-03 08:05:33 upgrade python-gobject 2.15.2-0ubuntu1 2.15.3-0ubuntu3
2008-09-03 08:05:34 upgrade python-glade2 2.12.1-6ubuntu1 2.13.0-0ubuntu1
2008-09-03 08:05:34 upgrade python-gtk2 2.12.1-6ubuntu1 2.13.0-0ubuntu1
2008-09-03 08:05:35 upgrade python-libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2ubuntu1 2.6.32.dfsg-2ubuntu2

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Setting back to confirmed, there is no sight of a new package.

Changed in software-properties:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
Changed in software-properties:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Oli (oli) wrote :

I'm sorry but the updates are out and about. *cranks the lever back to Fix Released*

Check http://packages.ubuntu.com if you need to. They're all there at the version I'm saying.

Are you on a mirror?

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