Comment 1 for bug 180964

I was able to reproduce this with this additional information.
The crash is occurring inside the garbage collection thread after the script has called sys.exit().

jason@hardy:~$ PYUNO_LOGLEVEL=ARGS python ooextract.py copyright
2008-01-16 14:53:39,197 [CALL,tid 1]: Instantiating pyuno bridge
Text (Encoded)
2008-01-16 14:53:39,256 [CALL,tid 1]: try py->uno[0x822c280].createInstanceWithContext((string)"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", (com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext)0x81ebe34)
2008-01-16 14:53:39,272 [CALL,tid 1]: success py->uno[0x822c280].createInstanceWithContext()=(com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x8236db0
2008-01-16 14:53:39,273 [CALL,tid 1]: try py->uno[0x8239e48].resolve((string)"uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext")
2008-01-16 14:53:39,404 [CALL,tid 1]: success py->uno[0x8239e48].resolve()=(com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x81cb22c
2008-01-16 14:53:39,417 [CALL,tid 1]: try py->uno[0x8249370].createInstanceWithContext((string)"com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x81cb22c)
2008-01-16 14:53:39,417 [CALL,tid 1]: success py->uno[0x8249370].createInstanceWithContext()=(com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x824a1f4
2008-01-16 14:53:39,961 [CALL,tid 1]: try py->uno[0x824db20].loadComponentFromURL((string)"file:///home/jason/copyright", (string)"_blank", (byte)0x0, ([]any){ (any){ (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"Hidden", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (boolean)true }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE } } })
2008-01-16 14:53:40,169 [CALL,tid 1]: success py->uno[0x824db20].loadComponentFromURL()=(com.sun.star.lang.XComponent)0x827681c
2008-01-16 14:53:40,221 [CALL,tid 1]: try py->uno[0x8277030].dispose()
2008-01-16 14:53:40,329 [CALL,tid 1]: success py->uno[0x8277030].dispose()=void
Fatal Python error: PyImport_GetModuleDict: no module dictionary!
Aborted (core dumped)

(gdb) info threads
* 5 Thread 0xb5d98b90 (LWP 19348) 0xb7fb6410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  3 Thread 0xb6599b90 (LWP 19343) 0xb7fb6410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  2 Thread 0xb6d9ab90 (LWP 19341) 0xb7fb6410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  1 Thread 0xb7e128c0 (LWP 19332) 0xb7fb6410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7fb6410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7e3df35 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb7e3f8b1 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3 0x080e8677 in Py_FatalError (msg=0x8134f4c "PyImport_GetModuleDict: no module dictionary!") at ../Python/pythonrun.c:1561
#4 0x080df147 in PyImport_AddModule (name=0xb7c423ed "__main__") at ../Python/import.c:365
#5 0xb7c27b64 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpyuno.so
#6 0xb7c27ee5 in pyuno::Runtime::Runtime () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpyuno.so
#7 0xb7c41dcd in pyuno::GCThread::run () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpyuno.so
#8 0xb7c41fe2 in threadFunc () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpyuno.so
#9 0xb797f5ed in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3