software centre closed unexpectedly, libapt-pkg.so.4.11.0 segfault

[Colin Ian King]

ISO testing, image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110919/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

Following http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem, before I did "prepare for shipping to end user" I installed TuxPaint. During the installation I got a segmentation fault in libapt-pkg.so.4.11.0 and a dialog box saying:

"Sorry, the program software-center" closed unexpectedly

Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyse the
problem and send a report to the developers."

Kernel log shows we had a segfault at:

[ 355.587785] software-center[1700]: segfault at 7fefe0ece9e8 ip 00007ff08729b4ea sp 00007fff72f18630 error 4 in libapt-pkg.so.4.11.0[7ff087213000+115000]
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110919)
Package: software-center 4.1.23.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

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[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

apport information

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From softwarecenterlog.txt:

2011-09-19 19:37:01,328 - softwarecenter.db - ERROR - failed to add apt-xapian-index
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py", line 157, in _get_new_xapiandb
    axi = xapian.Database("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/__init__.py", line 3408, in __init__
    _xapian.Database_swiginit(self,_xapian.new_Database(*args))
DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't stat '/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index' (No such file or directory)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Do you have any more of the kernel log from this system?

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