software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

[Ron Burrow]

On Mac Mini 2007.
Had just installed GPointing

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 13.08-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 8 10:51:15 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-17 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130717)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xaa9ed5aa: lock addl $0x1,0x24(%eax)
 PC (0xaa9ed5aa) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x24(%eax)" (0x00010024) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-menu-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-menu-3.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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