Hi I also got the message: obsolete package - python-gobject. I had just
upgraded the kernel  to linux-image-2.6.27-2.3-generic, from
2.6.27-2.2-generic. I was just about to burn an APTonCD image, because
last time I clicked restart, to upgrade from 2.6.27-2.1 to 2.6.27-2.3, I
ran into the reboot failure. I am fairly in the dark still about what
might have caused it, although I read something about firmware being
installed in the wrong folder. . Anyway, I removed the KVM and fuse
package through synaptic, as well as timidity and sun-java6-doc, since
they gave me problems. When I checked in synaptic to make sure my
applications were up to date, I ran into this bug again. I decided to
try and reinstall  python-gobject before burning my APTonCD image and
rebooting. Big mistake. WARNING: do not run '$ sudo apt-get -t etch-
backports --reinstall install python-gobject' after having upgraded to
2.6.27-2.3 manually, and before rebooting. I had done apt-get source and
build-dep before on the python-gobject package. When I entered the
malicious reinstall comment, all python-gobject depending packages were
removed and not reinstalled. I don't recall all of them, anyway: gnome-
terminal, GNOME Display Manager, startupmanager, all core applications.
There was no way to reboot from hard disk, although I have not given it
to much priority, since I had to repartition my hard disk anyway. I am
now backing up from the live CD and I will try to recover apt-cache,
since I only have 8.10 alfa 3 and a hardy APTonCD image of nearly 1 GB.
I will also recover my /var/crash directory, Anyway, I only have USB1
gates, so I am pretty much toast here, since it's a 112 GB main
partition. I will do a reinstall without formatting, but I still have to
transfer some other stuff also. I am not coming home early tonight,
although I am already there, Please be smarter than me guys. For most
linux adepts not a real problem I suppose, but anyway ...

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software-properties-gtk crashed with SystemError in <module>()
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