update-manager crashed with ImportError in <module>()

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Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrade to karmic failed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 3 16:01:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: update-manager 1:0.125.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager -c -d
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-c', '-d']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with ImportError in <module>()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

What happens if you run:
$ dpkg -l python-gconf
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure python-gconf

does that fix the problem?

[codification (codification)]

Had the very same problem where update-manager crashed after my upgrade from jaunty to karmic release candidate. Also got the message that import of module gconf failed.
I tried

$ python -c"import gconf"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gconf

So I tried

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure python-gconf

And that solved it for me. Now import of gconf works in python and update manager starts.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I'm closing this report, karmic and jaunty have reached end-of-life.

Users of Oneiric having the following error in update-manager
from gi.repository import GConf
ImportError: cannot import name GConf

are facing bug 807715, please subscribe to this report.

Thanks and sorry for the auto-duplicate to the wrong report.