Crash of software-center with UnicodeDecodeError

[MTelegin]

Yesterday I upgraded from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 and got software-center crash with trace:

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maxim@maxim-desktop:~$ software-center
2013-07-10 08:53:51,668 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
2013-07-10 08:53:52,868 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to use geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Error.notAvailable: Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
2013-07-10 08:53:53,708 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2013-07-10 08:53:53,732 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2013-07-10 08:53:53,774 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51, 'find_module')'
2013-07-10 08:53:53,774 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for LaunchpadIntegration
2013-07-10 08:53:53,907 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO - aptcache.open()
/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/update.py:872: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  if untranslated_value != translated_value:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 183, in <module>
    app.run(args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 1375, in run
    self.show_available_packages(args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 1313, in show_available_packages
    self.view_manager.set_active_view(ViewPages.AVAILABLE)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/viewmanager.py", line 150, in set_active_view
    view_widget.init_view()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/availablepane.py", line 140, in init_view
    SoftwarePane.init_view(self)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/softwarepane.py", line 138, in init_view
    self.icons, self.show_ratings)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appview.py", line 71, in __init__
    self.helper = AppPropertiesHelper(db, cache, icons)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/models/appstore2.py", line 112, in __init__
    self.all_categories = cat_parser.parse_applications_menu()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/categories.py", line 294, in parse_applications_menu
    LOG.debug("%s %s %s" % (cat.name, cat.iconname, cat.query))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
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[vinibali (vinibali)]

i got the same issuse, but i can open the software center with another .deb file and after it runs, theres no problem. intresting :)