update-manager crashed with Depends in _show_transaction(): libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) but 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu3 is installed

[Vav Vavrek]

not sure the full scenario, but it seemed to function fine until the last reboot. The update manager icon in the top bar became a horizontal white dash in a circle {of course} and the note to run package manager from right click or apt-get. An installed file is broken essentially. Likely a crash in install created this crash, but i'm just trying to be thorough[ish].

thanx

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.196.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.27-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Feb 9 12:54:53 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-update']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with Depends in _show_transaction(): libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) but 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu3 is installed
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo