That's a design decision of Gio. It aborts with an assertion error if you try to load an invalid example. This is rather inconvenient in many cases, but not something we want to work around in pygobject.
** Package changed: pygobject (Ubuntu) => glib2.0 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155804 Title: python2.7 crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1155804/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs