What I did is went to updates and told it to install prerealease updates it
fixed it after I updated
On Oct 21, 2013 10:11 AM, "Vlad" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Also confirm this error is present in Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 final release.
> I just installed it, updated everything and, sometimes, software-center
> crashes. Only first time it crashed it offered to send a crash reports;
> following times it just crashes. This is what I get if run software-
> center on the prompt and it crashes:
>
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,019 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up
> proxy 'None'
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,394 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use
> geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.GeoclueErrorQuark.Code1:
> Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,558 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could
> not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,561 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin
> '<module 'webapps_activation' from
> '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,567 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the
> root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51,
> 'find_module')'
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,567 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for
> LaunchpadIntegration
> 2013-10-21 09:51:12,597 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO -
> aptcache.open()
>
> (software-center:11780): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'software-center'
> received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
>   (Details: serial 2052 error_code 9 request_code 62 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
>    variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)
> Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
>
> This is what I get when it does not crashes:
>
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,043 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up
> proxy 'None'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,239 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use
> geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.GeoclueErrorQuark.Code1:
> Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,416 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could
> not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,417 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin
> '<module 'webapps_activation' from
> '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,421 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the
> root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51,
> 'find_module')'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,420 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for
> LaunchpadIntegration
> 2013-10-21 09:52:51,449 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO -
> aptcache.open()
> 2013-10-21 09:52:52,911 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the
> root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py', 271,
> 'get_title_from_html')'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:52,911 - root - WARNING - failed to parse: '<div
> style="background-color: #161513; width:1680px; height:200px;">
>  <div style="background:
> url('/site_media/exhibits/2013/09/AAMFP_Leaderboard_700x200_1.jpg') top
> left no-repeat; width:700px; height:200px;"></div>
> </div>' ('ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 70:
> ordinal not in range(128))
> 2013-10-21 09:52:57,621 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use
> geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.GeoclueErrorQuark.Code1:
> Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
> 2013-10-21 09:52:59,085 - softwarecenter.db.utils - INFO -
> software-center-agent finished with status 0
>
> I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 final twice in the same machine and both
> times software-center crashed. Machine is a Dell XPS 15 (L521x). Haven't
> tried any workaround yet. I prefer to wait and see bug is corrected
> (after all, when it crashes, I relaunch it and it usually works the
> second time). Thanks to the developers working on this bug.
>
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> duplicate bug report (1210918).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163886
>
> Title:
>   software-center crashed with signal 5 with WebKit 2.0+
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   software center crashes when I open it
>
>   ProblemType: Crash
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
>   Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
>   Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: wl
>   ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CrashCounter: 1
>   Date: Wed Apr  3 14:15:24 2013
>   Disassembly: => 0x7f104ac4f2c5:       Cannot access memory at address
> 0x7f104ac4f2c5
>   ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-23 (161 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64
> (20121017.5)
>   InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
>   MarkForUpload: True
>   PackageArchitecture: all
>   ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
>   Signal: 5
>   SourcePackage: software-center
>   Stacktrace:
>    #0  0x00007f104ac4f2c5 in ?? ()
>    No symbol table info available.
>    Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff92459230
>   StacktraceTop: ?? ()
>   ThreadStacktrace:
>    .
>    Thread 11 (LWP 16319):
>    #0  0x00007f104c563ca4 in ?? ()
>    No symbol table info available.
>    Cannot access memory at address 0x7f1017021e40
>   Title: software-center crashed with signal 5
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-01 (1 days ago)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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