[Bug 852339] [NEW] update-manager does not install packages

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1. update-manager fails to install packages (the check button works as expected - new/upgrades are found and listed)
2. apt-get dist-upgrade works for command-line installation of packages

I'm running Natty 11.04 with all the latest package updates.
Linux dbl 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Listing of some relevant packages (obtained by grepping dpkg --list)...
ii  apt                                   0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1                            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-file                              2.4.0                                        search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)
ii  apt-rdepends                          1.3.0-1.1                                    Recursively lists package dependencies
ii  apt-transport-https                   0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1                            APT https transport
ii  apt-utils                             0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1                            APT utility programs
ii  apt-xapian-index                      0.41ubuntu6                                  maintenance and search tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
ii  aptdaemon                             0.41+bzr646-0ubuntu2.1                       transaction based package management service
ii  aptdaemon-data                        0.41+bzr646-0ubuntu2.1                       data files for clients
ii  aptitude                              0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1                             terminal-based package manager (terminal interface only)
ii  apturl                                0.4.2ubuntu5.1                               install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend
ii  apturl-common                         0.4.2ubuntu5.1                               install packages using the apt protocol - common data
ii  update-manager                        1:0.150.3                                    GNOME application that manages apt updates

Following is a snippet from /var/log/syslog showing a segfault during
the aptdaemon commit process...

Sep 16 23:28:40 dbl AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
Sep 16 23:28:41 dbl AptDaemon: INFO: UpdateCache() was called
Sep 16 23:28:41 dbl AptDaemon.Trans: INFO: Queuing transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/b4745232c0154290a550c47a6e8ef544
Sep 16 23:28:41 dbl AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Simulating trans: /org/debian/apt/transaction/b4745232c0154290a550c47a6e8ef544
Sep 16 23:28:41 dbl AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Processing transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/b4745232c0154290a550c47a6e8ef544
Sep 16 23:28:41 dbl AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Updating cache
Sep 16 23:28:54 dbl AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Finished transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/b4745232c0154290a550c47a6e8ef544
Sep 16 23:29:04 dbl AptDaemon: INFO: CommitPackages() was called: dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'google-chrome-stable')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s'))
Sep 16 23:29:04 dbl AptDaemon.Trans: INFO: Queuing transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/d8a2160000d442e08f1ec67a1f81333b
Sep 16 23:29:04 dbl kernel: [  150.054176] polkit-gnome-au[2503]: segfault at 9 ip 00007f63ee1c6b81 sp 00007fff7a143c90 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6[7f63ee193000+4e000]

thnx

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-terminal 2.32.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 16 23:31:30 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-25 (23 days ago)

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi natty running-unity
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update-manager does not install packages
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