update-manager broken after edgy upgrade

[Wulfy]

qt4x11 wrote:
> It is still giving me errors even if I use -f.
>
> [user at host 1 ~]$ sudo su
> root at host:/home/user# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg [191B]       
> Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_US     
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B]
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
> Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
> Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_US
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com <http://archive.ubuntu.com> 
> edgy/multiverse Translation-en_US
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg [191B]
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages
> Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release.gpg [191B]
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Translation-en_US
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_US
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Sources
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release    
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release               
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages     
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com <http://archive.ubuntu.com> 
> edgy-updates/restricted Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Sources
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Packages
> Fetched 4B in 11s (0B/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> root at host:/home/user# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree      
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> root at host :/home/user#
> root at host:/home/user#  gksu "update-manager -c"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 32, in ?
>     from UpdateManager.UpdateManager import UpdateManager
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", 
> line 59, in ?
>     import dbus
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
>     from _dbus import *
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/_dbus.py", line 48, in ?
>     from proxies import *
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 2, in ?
>     import introspect_parser
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/introspect_parser.py", 
> line 1, in ?
>     import libxml2
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
>     import libxml2mod
> ImportError: /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/libxml2mod.so: 
> undefined symbol: xmlXPathContextSetCache
[Disclaimer: I'm running Debian Sarge but am thinking of moving to Kubuntu.]

The problem seems to be in libxml2mod.so, rather than in UpdateManager.  
Try reinstalling that...

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