Looking at the traceback, it looks to me like this may be caused by the proxy setting.
Currently I have a proxy configured with gnome network preference settings as: host: web-proxy.britain.agilent.com port: 8088 -- update-manager crashed with InvalidURL in _set_hostport() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283155 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs