Update-manager not launching

[David Vilela]

I can't lauch update-manager, neither from Slingshot nor from terminal. This is what i get:

** (update-manager:16075): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-7itCCARZ0B: Connection refused
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./update-manager", line 37, in <module>
    from UpdateManager.UpdateManager import UpdateManager
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 43, in <module>
    import dbus
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/__init__.py", line 103, in <module>
    from dbus._dbus import Bus, SystemBus, SessionBus, StarterBus
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 39, in <module>
    from dbus.bus import BusConnection
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 39, in <module>
    from dbus.connection import Connection
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 27, in <module>
    import threading
ImportError: No module named 'threading'

[David Vilela (david-vilela)]

I resolved it manually installing threading module. The strange thing is, I keep two PC updated to the latest freya packages, and only one of them suffered from this problem.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Ubuntu's software updater is being replaced in Loki by AppCenter. Invalidating related issues.