Software Centre won't start

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Binary package hint: software-center

Refuses to start.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.23.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 11 20:48:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Laurent Schwarzenberger (lsch036)]

It affects me and many others too according to various blogs.

It won't open in unities dash and when trying it in terminal I get the following message

laurent@ursus:~$ software-center
2011-03-12 14:41:04,262 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dbus/proxies.py', 400, '_introspect_error_handler')'
2011-03-12 14:41:04,261 - dbus.proxies - ERROR - Introspect error on :1.163:/com/ubuntu/Softwarecenter: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 259219, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.