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  1. Bug #896836
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Comment 3 for bug 896836

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Robert Jamison (rwjamiso) wrote :

After installing matplotlib from the default oneiric repos, I was also getting the exact error in Bug Description above while executing help() modules. Also I was unable to 'import gtk'. Installing gtk2-engines-pixbuf changed the above error to this:

python2.7.2
import gtk
help()
modules
>
 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/__init__.py:2: Warning: cannot register existing type `GdkDisplayManager'
  import osk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/__init__.py:2: Warning: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
  import osk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/__init__.py:2: Warning: g_type_register_static: assertion `parent_type > 0' failed
  import osk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/__init__.py:2: Warning: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
  import osk

....hung process

FWIW