Muon cannot update Kubuntu 12.10 Daily Builds

[Marco Parillo]

I have tried twice:
1. A clean install of today's (2012-05-17) Daily Kubuntu desktop-i386 Build
2. A formerly up-to-date version of the 2012-05-11 Daily Kubuntu desktop-i386 Build

In both cases, I get the notification that updates are available. I click on the notification, and the Muon Update Manager comes up listing the packages to be updated, I click the checkbox to Install Updates and I get:

The package system could not be initialized, your configuration may be broken.

Any ideas?

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Workaround (to my issue, not the root cause), thanks to arpanaut
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11956099&postcount=6

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

did the trick. No updates are pending.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.