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malQi (malqav) wrote : update-manager cannot start

Binary package hint: update-manager

after recent update of edgy, the update-manager is unable to start, in console after "sudo update-manager" there is such output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 50, in ?
    parser = OptionParser()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1111, in __init__
    self.set_usage(usage)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1169, in set_usage
    self.usage = _("%prog [options]")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 568, in gettext
    return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 532, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 480, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 302, in _parse
    self.plural = c2py(plural)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 86, in c2py
    raise ValueError, \
ValueError: plural forms expression error, maybe unbalanced parenthesis