[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#520573: thuban: Fails to start, with, shapelibc.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Package: thuban
Version: 1.2.0-2.1
Severity: important

thuban fails to start up:

$ thuban
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/thuban", line 32, in <module>
    import Thuban.UI.main
  File "/usr/lib/thuban/Thuban/UI/main.py", line 18, in <module>
    import application
  File "/usr/lib/thuban/Thuban/UI/application.py", line 26, in <module>
    from Thuban.Model.session import create_empty_session
  File "/usr/lib/thuban/Thuban/Model/session.py", line 25, in <module>
    from data import ShapefileStore
  File "/usr/lib/thuban/Thuban/Model/data.py", line 20, in <module>
    import shapelib
  File "/usr/lib/thuban/Lib/shapelib.py", line 2, in <module>
    import shapelibc
ImportError: /usr/lib/thuban/Thuban/../Lib/shapelibc.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4
$ 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (600, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages thuban depends on:
ii  gdal-bin                     1.5.2-3     Geospatial Data Abstraction Librar
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libgdal1-1.5.0               1.5.2-3     Geospatial Data Abstraction Librar
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwxbase2.6-0               2.6.3.2.2-3 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0                2.6.3.2.2-3 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii  proj                         4.6.0-2     Cartographic projection filter and
ii  python [python-xmlbase]      2.5.2-3     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-sqlite                1.0.1-7     python interface to SQLite 2
ii  python-support               0.8.4       automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-wxgtk2.6              2.6.3.2.2-3 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

Versions of packages thuban recommends:
pn  python-gdal                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-psycopg                <none>     (no description available)

thuban suggests no packages.

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