I was trying to upgrade packages on a Saucy laptop when I ran into this problem. The rest is as described by the automatic procedure that registered this bug.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.190
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 22 15:59:57 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1377159834'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'600'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'685'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-27 (267 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update --no-focus-on-map
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-update', '--no-focus-on-map']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with Package linux-headers-3.11.0-2 isn't available in _show_transaction()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-05 (16 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
Was there a delay between launching update-manager and actually installing the updates? 3.11.0-2 was superseded by 3.11.0-3 on 8/16/2013.
Regardless, the crash is in aptdaemon.