software-center crashed with AttributeError in convert_desktop_file_to_installed_location(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'

[Sleepy John]

Since I'm in emergency recovery mode for a partition table problem, my only available access platform is my Live Natty CD. I had downloaded gptfdisk _0.7.2-1_i386.deb to /home/ubuntu and opening this brought me to the software center to try to install gptfdisk. My Natty Live platform is as it comes on the CD.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 4.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 04:30:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/gptfdisk_0.7.2-1_i386.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/gptfdisk_0.7.2-1_i386.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with AttributeError in convert_desktop_file_to_installed_location(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Sleepy John (john-eyre)]

Hope this helps. I'm not 100% sure how well the software center is able to operate in Live CD mode, but I'm following advice from http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/download.html so that I can run FixParts from Live Natty CD to work on my partition table problem.

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #769447, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.