Did anyone ever resolve this? I am now getting the same issue on Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit.
uname -a is:
Linux hostname 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 18:56:36 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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