Apport prompted me with this error message after a reboot. I have no idea when software-center crashed...
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 13.08-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.5-generic 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 18 22:22:06 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-22 (239 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20121222)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcCwd: /home/benedikt
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
_XReadEvents () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
Title: software-center crashed with signal 5 in _XReadEvents()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
Stacktrace:
#0 0xb6fa1af9 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb64f9a16 in ?? () from /tmp/apport_
No symbol table info available.
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
StacktraceSource:
#0 0xb6fa1af9 in ?? ()
#1 0xb64f9a16 in ?? () from /tmp/apport_
StacktraceTop:
?? ()
?? () from /tmp/apport_