software-center crashed with IndexError in _get_region_dumb(): list index out of range

[Karma Dorje]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04

$ apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
  Installed: 5.5.2.2
  Candidate: 5.5.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 5.5.2.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

steps to reproduce:

1. open a terminal (i used byobu) and enter this:

software-center

actual results:

Fontconfig warning: ignoring C.UTF-8: not a valid language tag
Fontconfig warning: ignoring C.UTF-8: not a valid language tag
Fontconfig warning: ignoring C.UTF-8: not a valid language tag
Fontconfig warning: ignoring C.UTF-8: not a valid language tag
2012-12-18 07:42:46,647 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
Fontconfig warning: ignoring C.UTF-8: not a valid language tag
2012-12-18 07:42:47,189 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Error.notAvailable: Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 130, in <module>
    app = SoftwareCenterAppGtk3(options, args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 397, in __init__
    self.icons)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/installedpane.py", line 95, in __init__
    CategoriesParser.__init__(self, db)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/categories.py", line 251, in __init__
    self._build_string_template_dict()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/categories.py", line 301, in _build_string_template_dict
    region = "%s" % get_region_cached()["countrycode"]
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/region.py", line 147, in get_region_cached
    my_region = rd.get_region()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/region.py", line 98, in get_region
    res = self._get_region_dumb()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/region.py", line 114, in _get_region_dumb
    countrycode = loc.split("_")[1]

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: software-center 5.5.2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 18 07:41:08 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-30 (78 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SoftwareCenterLog:
 2012-12-18 07:41:07,169 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
 2012-12-18 07:41:07,879 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Error.notAvailable: Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with IndexError in _get_region_dumb(): list index out of range
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-10-05 (73 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Karma Dorje (taaroa)]

in gnome-terminal this does not cause crash

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained