This has not re-occurred for more than 3 months.
More than likely resulted from failing RAM chip as discussed in commentary.
Marking as invalid.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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update
The computer this problem occurred on became increasingly unstable.
After investigation I discovered a failing RAM DIMM stick (thanks to the
"memtest" program that's available at the boot menu of all Ubuntu Live
CDs).
I believe the problem reported in this bug was associated with this
failing har
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
Status: New => Confirmed
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update-manager fails: bad marshal data
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162434
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Update-manager functioning again.
I was required to power-down for a couple of hours today. This may have
corrected the problem.
Other than this no other change was made to the system.
I can now use Update-manager & the Update notification icon again - apparently
error free.
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update-manager
Crash report attached.
Also note this is a Feisty system.
** Attachment added: "_usr_bin_update-manager.1000.crash"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10351724/_usr_bin_update-manager.1000.crash
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update-manager fails: bad marshal data
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162434
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