software-center crashed with DBusException in _convert_dbus_exception(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. aptdaemon does not respond in time.

[derrill wayne anderson]

reinstalling google earth 6 caused sotware center crash

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f1223ad1ac7782eb1f751c7625629c6a
CheckboxSystem: 6ce041aeed0a2c17b3343b66d157175d
Date: Fri Jul 1 12:40:52 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/Downloads/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/Downloads/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DBusException in _convert_dbus_exception(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-01 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I can reproduce this by running:

$ software-center /tmp/google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb
and installing/reinstalling it.

It appears that aptdaemon blocks while its investigating the deb and at the same time s-c is doing
dbus calls to aptdaemon resulting in a blocking UI in s-c

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Closing the software-center task, it will not crash anymore if this happens, the real fix is now in aptdaemon too.

[Luke Scharf (lukescharf)]

Thank you!