Strange ABRT Issue

[dalydesign]

Arrived in work to find a million error emails stating that a crash has been detected:

abrt_version:   2.0.8
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python /usr/libexec/abrt-action-generate-machine-id -o /var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-01-18-09:53:18-16748/machineid
executable:     /usr/libexec/abrt-action-generate-machine-id
hostname:       server1.myserver.com
kernel:         2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64
last_occurrence: 1453110798
time:           Mon 18 Jan 2016 09:53:24 GMT
uid:            0

backtrace:
:abrt-action-generate-machine-id:24:<module>:ImportError: No module named argparse
:
:Traceback (most recent call last):
:  File "/usr/libexec/abrt-action-generate-machine-id", line 24, in <module>
:    from argparse import ArgumentParser
:ImportError: No module named argparse
:
:Local variables in innermost frame:
:__builtins__: <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>
:__file__: '/usr/libexec/abrt-action-generate-machine-id'
:__package__: None
:sys: <module 'sys' (built-in)>
:__name__: '__main__'
:__doc__: 'This module provides algorithms for generating Machine IDs.\n'

At the moment abrtd fails to start with the following error message:
abrtd: Failed to start: got sig 2

Also grep SELinux /var/log/messages shows:
Jan 18 10:09:47 server1.myserver.com kernel: SELinux: Initializing.
Jan 18 10:09:47 server1.myserver.com kernel: SELinux: Disabled at runtime.

Before I go digging into this, does any one have any idea what is going on?

The last auto-update was a week ago (12.5.30 Update #18, last updated at Jan 12, 2016 03:18 AM).