Evan Broder wrote in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.2/+bug/917088:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I ran into this error while installing VMware Player on Precise. I believe I've tracked it down to the environment that the VMware installer sets. /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.0/python/init.sh: if [ -z "$_VMIS_INIT_PYTHON" ]; then export PYTHON_ROOT="$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/python . "$PYTHON_ROOT"/pygtk/init.sh export PYTHONHOME=`dirname "$PYTHON_ROOT"` export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHON_ROOT/lib:$PYTHON_ROOT/lib/lib-dynload:$PYTHONPATH" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PYTHON_ROOT/lib/libsqlite3:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" PYTHON="$PYTHON_ROOT/python" export PYTHON export _VMIS_INIT_PYTHON=1 fi Setting PYTHONHOME as init.sh sets it is enough to get python3.2mu to abort: evan@evan-precise-amd64:~$ PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.0/python /usr/bin/python3.2mu /usr/bin/lsb_release -sd Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding Aborted (core dumped) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938869 Title: lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.2/+bug/938869/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs