From viewing a "more info" screen for an application, I hit the back button to return to the list of software, and it just never came back.
Notes:
I'm running under VMware player v3.1.5 build-491717, in case that makes a difference.
I installed Precise Alpha 1, and did a partial upgrade afterward. All packages are theoretically up to date.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Feb 3 05:41:30 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111130.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center alltray/AllTray
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'alltray/AllTray']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DatabaseModifiedError in _database_gen_allterms_iter(): The revision being read has been discarded - you should call Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-03 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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