update-manager cannot initialize with NameError 'logging'

[Josh]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Using 9.10, upgraded from 9.04. May have to do with an incorrectly configured locale.
Traceback:
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 107, in <module>
    app = UpdateManager(data_dir, options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 119, in __init__
    logging.exception("setlocale failed")
NameError: global name 'logging' is not defined

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 21:41:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: update-manager 1:0.126.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with NameError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare vboxusers

[Josh (josh-holthaven)]

Solved. I sent this bug report, and found out how to fix it on my system:
The file /etc/default/locale originally contained only one line:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
I added a second line:
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
Then ran:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
with output:
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Now update-manager works just fine.

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