software center wont start up in ubuntu 11.04 alpha1

Bug #685032 reported by zeruke
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #684887: software-center didn't launch. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

after some updates today the software center wont start up for me and i have already tried uninstalling and installing back using synaptic

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 40a201a250cad2eebc26001540b40e25
CheckboxSystem: e704f33cc0866ff0f0256a33de39ea1c
Date: Fri Dec 3 18:31:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101130.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

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zeruke (oninekoze) wrote :
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Salih EMIN (salih-emin) wrote :

I just want to add some info:
If I run Software center from terminal I get this:
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terminal@natty:~$ software-center
2010-12-04 03:05:06,526 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py', 96, 'open')'
2010-12-04 03:05:06,526 - root - WARNING - failed to add sca db Couldn't stat '/home/salih/.cache/software-center/software-center-agent.db' (No such file or directory)
2010-12-04 03:05:06,554 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/widgets/mkit_themes.py', 675, 'retrieve')'
2010-12-04 03:05:06,554 - root - WARNING - No styling hints for Raleigh were found... using Human hints.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 109, in <module>
    app = SoftwareCenterApp(datadir, xapian_base_path, options, args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 209, in __init__
    self.navhistory_forward_action)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/availablepane.py", line 100, in __init__
    self._build_ui()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/availablepane.py", line 111, in _build_ui
    self.apps_filter)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/catview_gtk.py", line 256, in __init__
    self.build(desktopdir)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/catview_gtk.py", line 497, in build
    self._build_homepage_view()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/catview_gtk.py", line 327, in _build_homepage_view
    self._append_featured_and_new()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/catview_gtk.py", line 412, in _append_featured_and_new
    nonapps_visible=AppStore.NONAPPS_ALWAYS_VISIBLE)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/appview.py", line 180, in __init__
    q.get_description() for q in search_query])):
AttributeError: 'Query' object has no attribute 'get_description'
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
software-center:
  Installed: 3.1.3
  Candidate: 3.1.3
  Version table:
 *** 3.1.3 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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zeruke (oninekoze) wrote :

thanks for adding that Salih ....i get the same thing and i forgot to add that

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