Software Center not start, infinite loading
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
software-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gary Lasker | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gary Lasker |
Bug Description
I cant use the Software-center.. the app open but stay on loading screen forever, the cicle indicator of load never ends. So i can't see, search, install or unistall programs by software-center, im forced to use the Terminal or Synaptic.
I just tried fix in terminal using apt-get clean, autoclean, check, update, upgrade, install -f and much more but without effect.
Steps to reproduce for SRU:
1. Run Oneiric
2. Set aside the file /var/lib/
3. Copy the attached broken cataloged_times.p file from this bug (https:/
4. Launch software-center and observe that it opens but shows only a spinner and never fully starts.
5. Quit software-center
6. Update to software-center version 5.0.4 in oneiric-proposed.
7. Start software-center again and verify that now it starts normally.
8. Finally, restore your original copy of /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 17 04:52:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (34 days ago)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Hello Anderson, thank you for your bug report. I'd like to figure out exactly what is happening that is preventing startup like this. Could you please open a terminal and launch software-center from the command line (as shown below), and then paste the resulting output here? That should tell us what is happening so that we can fix this up for you.
$ software-center
Thank you very much for your help!
Gary