I've only started gdebi. It crashed immediately without showing a window.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gdebi 0.8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 25 09:10:37 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gdebi/gdebi-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk /home/username/.gvfs/core\ on\ username-p310/data/AAA-downloads/usernameDownloads/deb/iron64.deb
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk', '/home/username/.gvfs/core on username-p310/data/AAA-downloads/usernameDownloads/deb/iron64.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi-gtk crashed with TypeError in gio_copy_in_place(): GInterface.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
One important additional information - the .deb file was on a network drive to which my computer was connected via Samba !