software-center crashed with IOError in _open()

[Mark Smith]

Binary package hint: software-center

It looks like it's trying to open a file in /home/username (which doesn't exist) rather than /home/mark (my actual username).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 30 18:54:00 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/Downloads/ia32-crossover-pro_9.1.0-1_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/Downloads/ia32-crossover-pro_9.1.0-1_amd64.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with IOError in _open()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Mark Smith (tntc-tig)]

Traceback has most relevant line, I think:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.cache/software-center/software-center.log'

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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 #652151, 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.

[Mark Smith (tntc-tig)]

ach. nevermind. The logfile/traceback is misleading. It appears that somehow /home/mark/.cache/software-center/ had its ownership changed to root:root. changing it back to mark:mark (My username) solved the problem. This was a fresh install of ubuntu as of yesterday. Perhaps the default permissions are wrong? More testing is required on my end.