software-center crashes after launch

[chris]

ubuntu software center in karmic koala crashes after it launches. this began 3 days after initiale installation.

here is the error output:

~$ software-center

** (software-center:19254): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
        /home/cstathis/.themes/Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v1.0/gtk-2.0/Shadows/shadow-out.png,
borders don't fit within the image

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstFourcc multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstIntRange multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstDoubleRange multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstFractionRange multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstValueList multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstValueArray multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GstFraction multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gdouble multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gfloat multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gchararray multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gboolean multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GEnum multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type GFlags multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gint multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gint64 multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type glong multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type guint multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type guint64 multiple times

(software-center:19254): GStreamer-WARNING **: adding type gulong multiple times
Could not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 16:02:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in software-center.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[chris (christathis)]

bump

[d austin (da4849)]

I was having the same problem. See #4 at:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/438366

 sudo apt-get remove --purge gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
This fixed it.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 459940, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.