software-center crashed with AttributeError in __str__()

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: software-center

1. Navigate to a department screen.
2. In Appearance Preferences, change the theme.

What happens:
* Apport reports "Ubuntu Software Center closed unexpectedly", but it didn't.
* The department screen goes blank.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 4 10:24:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: software-center 1.1.16.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with AttributeError in __str__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Vish (vish)]

Confirming bug.

I got a similar crash[bug 533770] when i switched themes while having Software center open.
The pathbar arrow buttons seemed stuck with the old theme and the crash occurred

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

I think this bug is a duplicate of the bug #531780 but doesn´t have exactly the same backtrace.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Monkey, you are correct (commetn #3); it's the same bug, just a different path to hit it. Many thanks!