[Bug 917088] Re: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()

[Evan Broder]

I ran into this error while installing VMware Player on Precise. I
believe I've tracked it down to the environment that the VMware
installer sets.

/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.0/python/init.sh:

if [ -z "$_VMIS_INIT_PYTHON" ]; then
    export PYTHON_ROOT="$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/python

    . "$PYTHON_ROOT"/pygtk/init.sh

    export PYTHONHOME=`dirname "$PYTHON_ROOT"`
    export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHON_ROOT/lib:$PYTHON_ROOT/lib/lib-dynload:$PYTHONPATH"
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PYTHON_ROOT/lib/libsqlite3:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

    PYTHON="$PYTHON_ROOT/python"

    export PYTHON
    export _VMIS_INIT_PYTHON=1
fi

Setting PYTHONHOME as init.sh sets it is enough to get python3.2mu to
abort:

evan at evan-precise-amd64:~$ PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.0/python /usr/bin/python3.2mu /usr/bin/lsb_release -sd
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
Aborted (core dumped)

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Title:
  lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()

Status in “python3.2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Crashed during installation of vmplayer 4.01 on amd64

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: lsb-release 4.0-0ubuntu17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashCounter: 1
  Date: Mon Jan 16 11:16:04 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/lsb_release
  ExecutableTimestamp: 1322748982
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/lsb_release -sd
  ProcCwd: /home/j-lallement/Downloads
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: lsb
  StacktraceTop:
   raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
   abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
   Py_FatalError ()
   ?? ()
   Py_Main ()
  Title: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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