Hi, I got exactly the same problem after upgrading from dapper to edgy including the duplicate installation as reported above (one version in /usr/share/python-support and the other one in /usr/lib/python2.4/site- packages.
I did the same steps to troubleshoot but had to manually remove the folder "istanbul" in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages in order to get it working. Since I did a repository install of istanbul in dapper before (not a manual one as reported above), I think that the upgrade to edgy does not fully remove the old package. Probably worth checking... -- doesn't start but crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/60616 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
