Bug#578332: update-manager-gnome: update-manager always fails with "A fatal error has been detected in update-manager."

[José Alburquerque]

Package: update-manager-gnome
Version: 0.200.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi.  Sorry to file this bug, I didn't know what else to do.  I had an
old squeeze/sid system that I had not been able to use for months.  I
finally got some usable hardware and installed the disks which brought
the system up.  When it first came up, update-manager ran fine and I
used it to upgrade to the latest packages (which took a long time
because I had to run it twice to fully upgrade).

Now my system is almost fully upgraded (some packages like cpp-4.1 seem
to want to remove other packages so I haven't upgraded those), but now
when I try to run update-manager, I get the error in the subject.  I'll
attach a windowshot when this bug has been fully filed.  Have I done
something wrong?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gksu                          2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gconf                  2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gobject                2.21.1-1   Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                   2.17.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support                1.0.7      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-vte                    1:0.24.0-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  update-manager-core           0.200.3-1  APT update manager core functional

update-manager-gnome recommends no packages.

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.60.debian-1.1 manage the repositories that you i
ii  update-notifier          0.99.3debian2   Daemon which notifies about packag

-- no debconf information