I've found that the best workaround is to disable oneconf (so as to avoid removing software-center and ubuntu-desktop).
sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-service sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-query sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/oneconf/oneconf-update
And then I killed the running process oneconf-service via System Monitor. Goodbye Oneconf, thanks for the memory back. I did this a while back in 11.10 and had no problems as a result. I've now tried it in 12.04 as the bug remains.
I've found that the best workaround is to disable oneconf (so as to avoid removing software-center and ubuntu-desktop).
sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/ oneconf/ oneconf- service oneconf/ oneconf- query oneconf/ oneconf- update
sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/
sudo chmod a-x /usr/share/
And then I killed the running process oneconf-service via System Monitor. Goodbye Oneconf, thanks for the memory back. I did this a while back in 11.10 and had no problems as a result. I've now tried it in 12.04 as the bug remains.