[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-air-modes broken in recent update ?

[M Dammer]

Since a couple of days I cannot run gr-air-modes anymore (it used to
work before). I am running gnuradio in an isolated build environment on
XUbuntu 12.04 64bit.
Here is the blurp from the crash:

address@hidden:~/apps/gnuradio/3.7$ modes_gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/bin/modes_gui", line 30, in <module>
    import air_modes
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/__init__.py",
line 50, in <module>
    from air_modes_swig import *
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/air_modes_swig.py",
line 26, in <module>
    _air_modes_swig = swig_import_helper()
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/air_modes_swig.py",
line 22, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_air_modes_swig', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function
(init_air_modes_swig)
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line
66, in apport_excepthook
    from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 1, in
<module>
    from apport.report import Report
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 18, in
<module>
    import problem_report
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 14, in
<module>
    import zlib, base64, time, sys, gzip, struct, os
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 10, in <module>
    import io
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/io.py", line 60, in <module>
    import _io
TypeError: type '_io._IOBase' participates in gc and is a base type but
has inappropriate tp_free slot

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/bin/modes_gui", line 30, in <module>
    import air_modes
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/__init__.py",
line 50, in <module>
    from air_modes_swig import *
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/air_modes_swig.py",
line 26, in <module>
    _air_modes_swig = swig_import_helper()
  File
"/home/mark/apps/gnuradio/3.7/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/air_modes/air_modes_swig.py",
line 22, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_air_modes_swig', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function
(init_air_modes_swig)