software-center crashed with GError in __init__()

[halfsane]

Binary package hint: software-center

V1.0.2

I updated from Jaunty to Karmic. The Software center crashes at startup if I am in KDE. Works fine in Gnome.

I installed the software center from synaptic in KDE

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 3 19:46:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with GError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[halfsane (gorillabeast)]

This crashed because of the icon theme I had installed. I switched themes and all is well.

I would guess that should not happen.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #466271, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.