aptd crashed with error in connect()

[Steve Faulkner]

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

My operating system is Karmic. I update two or three times a day since updates are coming thick and fast just now. aptd crashes repreatedly. I also seem to have no services. I have no system logs, no cron. If I try to run services-admin my system thinks that gnome-system-tools is not installed. But if I attempt to install this it says it is installed. Thus:

 steve@diddy:~$ su
Password:
root@diddy:/home/steve# services-admin
The program 'services-admin' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt-get install gnome-system-tools
services-admin: command not found
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve#
root@diddy:/home/steve# aptitude -v install gnome-system-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
gnome-system-tools is already installed at the requested version (2.28.0-0ubuntu1)
gnome-system-tools is already installed at the requested version (2.28.0-0ubuntu1)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done

Current status: 0 broken [+0], 0 updates [+0], 154 new [+0].
root@diddy:/home/steve#

My system was upgraded to Karmic from Jaunty.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 1 10:20:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: aptdaemon 0.10+bzr240-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd
ProcEnviron:

ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: aptd crashed with error in connect()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups:

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