Bug#431412: update-manager: Crash after Examining your system bar

[Daniele Segato]

Package: update-manager
Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-13
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-k8-jackoss (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii  libgnome2-perl              1.040-1      Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  lsb-release                 3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                      2.4.4-6      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt                  0.6.20       Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-glade2               2.8.6-8      GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2               2.12.4-6     Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnupginterface       0.3.2-9      Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii  python-support              0.6.4        automated rebuilding support for p
ii  synaptic                    0.57.11.1+b1 Graphical package manager

update-manager recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


this is what i get if i launch it from a root terminal

# update-manager
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 71, in ?
    app.main(options)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 759, in main
    self.fillstore()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 613, in fillstore
    self.list.update(self.cache)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 204, in update
    cache.saveDistUpgrade()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 97, in saveDistUpgrade
    self.clean()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 87, in clean
    action_group = apt_pkg.GetPkgActionGroup(self._depcache)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GetPkgActionGroup'