test-apport crashed with AssertionError in <module>()

Binary package hint: apport

when i do /usr/share/apport/testsuite/test-apport kernel 2>&1 | tee /tmp/test-kernel.out it crashed

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashReports:
 644:1000:1000:0:2007-06-28 13:25:55.000000000 +0200:2007-06-28 13:25:55.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/_bin_cat.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:8215:2007-06-28 13:25:54.000000000 +0200:2007-06-28 13:26:03.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_testsuite_test-apport.1000.crash
Date: Thu Jun 28 13:25:55 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/testsuite/test-apport
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apport 0.85
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/testsuite/test-apport kernel
ProcCwd: /home/roberto
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/testsuite/test-apport', 'kernel']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: test-apport crashed with AssertionError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/apport/testsuite/test-apport", line 290, in <module>
     'no reports present after deleting (present: %s)' % str(apport.fileutils.get_all_reports())
 AssertionError: no reports present after deleting (present: ['/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_testsuite_test-apport.1000.crash'])
Uname: Linux pearljam 2.6.22-7-generic #1 SMP Mon Jun 25 17:33:14 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux