update-manager crashed with SystemError in mark_install(): E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Sandeep Kumar Pilakhnawal]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I was just checking for new updates when this error showed up.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.147.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 21 07:59:41 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/update-manager -d
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 LANG=en_IN
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-d']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with SystemError in mark_install(): E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-18 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Sorry for such a delay getting to this. Are you still having the problem?
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

I just encountred the trouble. Please re-open the bug.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Confirming and marking as duplicate of current bug 850482.
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