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Downloadable Information is empty

I tried to create downloadable product following the documentation I failed in step 3.

My tab with “Downloadable Information” is empty:

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I spend a few hours trying to debug this. There is no error in JS console or magento log. I also disabled modules. Cleared cache of course.

Mage_Downloadable_Block_Adminhtml_Catalog_Product_Edit_Tab_Downloadable::__construct() is called but _toHtml() is not (as far as I can tell). I read though related classes, templates and layouts but I could not figure out from where it should be called or what the problem is.

I am totally lost. Any advice where to dig deeper?