[maverick] Software Center search function broken

[Tesselode]

Binary package hint: software-center

When searching for programs, the search results box is blank. The mouse cursor turns into a throbber (is that what you call it?) when over the window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.34-5.13-generic 2.6.34
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 21 19:43:06 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[xteejx (xteejx)]

I can confirm this in Maverick, attaching relevant info.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 2.1.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-5.6-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[xteejx (xteejx)]

apport information

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Marking Triaged, there should be enough information here.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Teej, thanks a lot for providing the debug info! Based on the command line output you provided I can see that this is a duplicate of bug 596443, so I'll mark it as such. The good news is that this bug has been fixed and the fix will be available in the next development release of Software Center which will be soon (at the latest by maverick alpha 2, scheduled for July 1st).

In the meantime, a workaround for this bug is to do one of the following:

- Choose a category from the Departments panel and do the search from within the category view.
    OR
- Expand the "Get Software" item in the left panel and choose "Provided by Ubuntu" (or other child item if desired), and do the search from there.

Thanks again Teej for the info and also to Tesselode for reporting the bug!