update manager crashes with SIGABRT

[Michael Mess]

After login a window appears, telling that update manager crashed with SIGABRT.
This happens often, but it probably not always.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-35.55-generic-pae 3.2.34
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Aptdaemon:
 Jan 23 08:03:03 quad AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting due to inactivity
 Jan 23 08:03:03 quad AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting was requested
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 23 08:03:37 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1358889580
 com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 621
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 634
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Michael Mess (michael-michaelmess)]

Screen output when updating on 2012-01-23 on the command line:

Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.2.0-36{a} linux-headers-3.2.0-36-generic-pae{a}
  linux-image-3.2.0-36-generic-pae{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bamfdaemon dkms dpkg duplicity firefox firefox-gnome-support
  firefox-locale-en gnome-games-data gnome-sudoku gnomine
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm libapache2-mod-php5 libbamf0 libbamf3-0
  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libglu1-mesa
  libmysqlclient18 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp
  libxatracker1 linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae
  linux-image-generic-pae linux-libc-dev mahjongg mysql-client-core-5.5
  mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5 nvidia-current openjdk-7-jre
  openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib php5-cli php5-common pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-gconf
  pulseaudio-module-jack pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils vino
  x11-common xbase-clients xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all
  xserver-xorg-video-all
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  firefox-globalmenu
50 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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