hal_lpadmin crashed with ImportError in <module>()

This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #177567. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

The "usb" Python module comes from the python-usb package and this package is required by hal-cups-utils in Intrepid.

So for me it looks like that something in your system is broken.

Reopening since we got two new duplicates, this seems to affect Jaunty.

Please update the python-usb package to the newest version, it had to be adapted to Python 2.6.

Can you run

sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cups
sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cupshelpers
sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-usb

and see whether this solves the problem? In this case this bug would be the same as bug 335543.

Correction, can you run

sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cups.postinst
sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-cupshelpers.postinst
sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-usb.postinst

and see whether this solves the problem? In this case this bug would be the same as bug 335543.

Looks like a problem in with the transition to Python 2.6 in python-central, according to IRC discussion with mvo and DktrKranz.

why should it be a python-central error, if the usb module cannot be imported, which is managed by python-support?

It seems that for the transition to Python 2.6 the post-install script of all Python libraries needs to be re-run (see also bug 335543). I do not know which package would be responsible for doing this on an update from Intrepid to Jaunty. I move it to python-support now. Perhaps it can be also the python package itself.

Based on http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904#python%20ImportError%20with%20systems%20upgraded%20before%20Ubuntu%209.04%20release%20candidate this should be fixed. Please reopen if not. Thanks.