software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()

[Aaron Broehl]

Binary package hint: software-center

i was trying to open the software center to install/uninstall new software.

ProblemType: Crash
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 13:32:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc595649244 <__cxa_allocate_exception+36>: addl $0x1,0x8(%rax)
 PC (0x7fc595649244) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x8(%rax)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 __cxa_allocate_exception () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 Xapian::Database::Database(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/_xapian.so
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
 PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[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.