update-manager crashed with GError in _run_synaptic()

[bananenkasper]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Crashed after trying to install updates.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 24 14:28:49 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with GError in _run_synaptic()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/backend/InstallBackendSynaptic.py", line 37, in _run_synaptic
     if gconfclient.get_bool("/apps/update-manager/autoclose_install_window"):
 GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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