Software update fails in Sugar 0.97.4

[mavrothal]

On olpc builds 13005o[0-2] software update UI gives the sense that the laptop is frozen. ie does not work and you can neither "OK" or "cancel" from the UI. (you can actually select another control panel to get out of this). Shell log below

1349844000.673538 WARNING root: No Gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py:47: Warning: g_object_set_property: assertion `G_IS_VALUE (value)' failed
  return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py:47: Warning: g_value_unset: assertion `G_IS_VALUE (value)' failed
  return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
1349844010.896960 WARNING root: _Account.__set_current_activity_cb
1349844010.898564 WARNING root: _Account.__set_current_activity_cb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py", line 338, in __select_option_cb
    self.show_section_view(option)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py", line 234, in show_section_view
    self._options[option]['alerts'])
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py", line 71, in __init__
    self._refresh()
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py", line 161, in _refresh
    self._model.check_updates()
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/model.py", line 69, in check_updates
    self._check_next_update()
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/model.py", line 82, in _check_next_update
    aslo.fetch_update_info(bundle, self.__check_completed_cb)
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/backends/aslo.py", line 164, in fetch_update_info
    _fetcher = _UpdateFetcher(bundle, completion_cb)
  File "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/backends/aslo.py", line 93, in __init__
    self._file.read_async(self.__file_read_async_cb)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py", line 47, in function
    return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
TypeError: read_async() takes exactly 5 arguments (2 given)
1349844050.004938 WARNING root: _Account.__set_current_activity_cb

[tonyforster]

see laptop12272

[dnarvaez]

Temptatively assigning to sugar.