extras breaks smart --gui

[Neal Becker]

rpm -q smart
smart-0.28-11.rhfc3.at

[create new /var/lib/smart]
smart update
[...OK]

smart --gui
[... OK]

Now add this to /etc/smart/channels/smart/channel:
[extras]
name=Fedora Core 3 - x86_64 - Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/3/x86_64
type=rpm-md

smart update
[... OK]

now run smart --gui:
smart --gui
python2.4: Objects/stringobject.c:105: PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != 
((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted