Not able to open Printer manager & applet.

Bug #833711 reported by Srikanth Nallamothu
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Bug Description

Not able to open printer manager "Printing" application
Not even the first window is being shown, neither the printer applet is visible.

The same used to work with Ubuntu Maverick but this stopped working after updating to Ubuntu Natty.

When i try to run it from command line the following is the log that i am noticing
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 78, in <module>
    import jobviewer
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/jobviewer.py", line 27, in <module>
    import pynotify
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0/pynotify/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _pynotify import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0/pynotify/_pynotify.so: undefined symbol: notify_notification_attach_to_status_icon

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.3.1+20110222-0ubuntu16.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 25 17:29:40 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added.
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
PackageArchitecture: all
Papersize: a4
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 LANG=en_IN
 LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=31605190-b2d1-44f8-9c3a-efe3a50e4130 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: system-config-printer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/08/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0X564R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA13:bd05/08/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0X564R:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Srikanth Nallamothu (srikanthnallamothu1) wrote :
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Seems to be a problem of pynotify, probably a version mismatch between Pythob bindings and C library.

affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) → notify-python (Ubuntu)
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