Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: update-manager

Description of the problem:
Starting update manager and then waiting for the changelog to appear results in 
either a crash or a python stack on the terminal that update manager was 
launched from. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start gnome-terminal .
2. In the gnome-terminal run update-manager .
3. Wait for one minute.

Expected results:
Changelog to appear or message to be presented saying changelog could not be 
found, try again later or visit this launchpad URL to see the launchpad 
changelog.

Actual results:
apport pops up or the following is printed on the terminal:
$ update-manager 
current dist not found in meta-release file
Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method MyCache.get_changelog of 
<UpdateManager.UpdateManager.MyCache object at 0x84d920c>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 
180, in get_changelog
    changelog = urllib2.urlopen(uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 374, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 392, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1101, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1074, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 924, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 385, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 349, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine

Version information:
Ubuntu Feisty (herd 5)
update-manager 0.57.2

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

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Crash while trying to view changelog (Unhandled exception ... 
MyCache.get_changelog )
https://launchpad.net/bugs/89439

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