software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/ubuntu/.cache/software-center'

[dragonhahney]

My laptop, HP 4525s, hard drive (500G) has been locked during re-loading ubuntu 11.04...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 4.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 22 13:25:12 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/ubuntu/.cache/software-center'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi dragonhahney, and thank you for your report. The issue you have encountered is actually a duplicate of bug 743003, and so I have marked it as such. Please note that this bug has been fixed in both Precise 12.04 LTS and in the current development version of Quantal. Please upgrade to 12.04 for the fix (and for many other improvements as well.

Many thanks for your help!