software-center crashed with DatabaseError in _database_gen_postlist_iter()

[Tomáš Honzák]

Binary package hint: software-center

Error description:
I ran sudo apt-get update from xterm while having software center opened (and idle). Error message "Sorry, Software Center for Ubuntu closed unexpectedly" appeared.

tom@quork:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

tom@quork:~$ LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
  Installed: 2.1.10
  Candidate: 2.1.10
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.10 0
        500 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 14 09:01:42 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(cususername, user)
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DatabaseError in _database_gen_postlist_iter()
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip disk floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access scanner users video

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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 #451555, 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.