software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in new_threadstate()

[Marcos K]

synergy nightly .deb package installed from online, Seems to have installed before software-center disappeared into apport crash?
55MB bug upload took me 20min so might as well file.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Mar 5 10:26:00 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/User Name/Downloads/synergy-1.4.7-r1247-Linux-i686.deb
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8119f10: mov 0x4(%ebx),%edx
 PC (0x08119f10) ok
 source "0x4(%ebx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 PyGILState_Ensure ()
 pyglib_gil_state_ensure () from /usr/lib/libpyglib-gi-2.0-python2.7.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.so
 g_datalist_clear () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 new_threadstate (interp=0x0, init=1) at ../Python/pystate.c:200
 PyGILState_Ensure () at ../Python/pystate.c:615
 pyglib_gil_state_ensure () at /build/buildd/pygobject-3.0.0/gi/_glib/pyglib.c:100
 pygobject_data_free (data=0x9287330) at /build/buildd/pygobject-3.0.0/gi/_gobject/pygobject.c:60
 g_datalist_clear (datalist=0x9505940) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./glib/gdataset.c:282

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

affects amd64 architecture as well.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained