update-manager crashed with GError in activate_details() - needs more robust gconf

[Pedro Sá (Kunst Uber Alles)]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Happens in jaunty beta on a VirtualBox guest, the host is a kubuntu intrepid, didn't happen before. It was after a "sudo aptitude update" "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade"

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with GError in activate_details()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 493, in activate_details
     self.gconfclient.set_bool("/apps/update-manager/show_details",expanded)
 GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to gconf daemon: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received)
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare