Comment 10 for bug 688682

Hi Kiwinote, thanks a lot for the nice, clean fix! It does the trick perfectly. It's merged to trunk and will be available in the next development release of Software Center which should appear at the very early part of next week.

Regarding the question about why we have seen a spate of duplicates of this problem in recent days, the timing seems to indicate that this is likely a side-consequence of the recent SIGSEGV crasher that so many people experienced (bug 259219). One possible scenario is that that many people, in an attempt to work around the SIGSEGV crash, attempted to launch software-center with root privileges. That said, I'm still not entirely sure of the exact conditions that would have resulted in this problem as I myself have not been able to reproduce this issue.

However, the fact is that, very soon after the fix for bug 259219 was released, we saw a spike in reports of this bug. Now, a few days later, we no longer see these reports.

The good news is that your fix will prevent this particular issue from being a problem in the future. Thanks again for that!