Ubuntu Software Center hangs on search for Ruby

[Jasper Frumau]

Binary package hint: software-center

I Opened the Ubuntu Software Center (USC), entered ruby in the search box and pressed enter. After that USC hanged. I am using Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick in my VmWare Fusion 3.1.0 Virtual Box and only had the terminal, Empathy and Firefox 3.6.3 opened at the same time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-4.5-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-4-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 19 02:56:59 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

The same happened to me on Lucid too, with the maverick software center installed from a PPA, software-center hung on a search for Ruby.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Jaspar, thanks for reporting this bug and thanks also to Robert for confirming. Based on the symptom you describe, it appears this is a duplicate of bug 596443, so I will mark it as such. Please check that bug for more information about when the fix will be released, and also note that there is a workaround described there there that you can use in the meantime.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and thank you again for your report and for helping to make Ubuntu better!