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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
printconf-backend crashes during execution, while accessing the file
/usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo.
The value of XX depends on the shell variable LANG. If this variable
is set to en, no crashes occur. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-config-printer-0.6.47.3.19-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
2. printconf-backend
3. LANG=en_US.UTF-8
4. printconf-backend
    

Actual Results:  
# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
# printconf-backend
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf-backend", line 7, in ?
    import backend
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/backend.py", line 50, in ?
    which = cups_import.which_spooler ()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 195, in
which_spooler
    return which
# LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# printconf-backend
#


Expected Results:  execution of printconf-backend without errors

Additional info:

This bug is proven on ia32e, x86_64 and i686.