update-manager won't start

[Jane Silber]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I am running Jaunty beta, and after updating this morning update-manager won't start. Trying in a terminal, I get

jane@randolph:~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 29, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 38, in <module>
    import gobject as _gobject
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gobject/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
    from glib import spawn_async, idle_add, timeout_add, timeout_add_seconds, \
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/glib/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from glib._glib import *
ImportError: /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8

Everything seems to be up to date - e.g, I have apt-get clean 'ed, and Synaptic works and says there are no updates to install.

Possibly related, while doing this morning's updates, I was automatically logged off. I'm not sure but I suspect it was an update being installed that forced me off. It was after logging back in that I wanted to check to make sure the updates had finished, and that's when I discovered that update-manager would no longer start.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks Jane, that's bug #349467, IS blocked the binaries already and mvo uploaded a fixed version