Bug#559530: [CRASH] Uncaught exception AttributeError in Backend/PythonApt.py:746

[Darren Tan Zhiming]

Package: update-manager-core
Version: 0.200.0-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/pyshared/UpdateManager/Backend/PythonApt.py


not sure what happened this time. my kernel keeps panicking recently.

*** /tmp/update-manager-bugsSzkWw
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- Exception Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
- Exception Value: AttributeError("'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_package_list'",)
- Exception Origin: <BugHandler.Thread(PythonAptCommit, started)>
- Exception Traceback:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/BugHandler.py", line 89, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 446, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/Backend/PythonApt.py", line 746, in thread_helper
    for pkg_info in self._available_updates.get_package_list():




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_SG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_SG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages update-manager-core depends on:
ii  gksu                          2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su
ii  lsb-release                   3.2-23     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python-apt                    0.7.13.3   Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-support                1.0.4      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  sudo                          1.7.2p1-1  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages update-manager-core recommends:
ii  update-manager-gnome          0.200.0-1  GNOME application that manages sof

update-manager-core suggests no packages.