software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()

[Mathias Menzer]

Binary package hint: software-center

Trying to install Dropbox, software-center crashed. gdebi seems to work fine installing a local available package.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.23.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Mar 14 11:55:12 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110301.7)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/User Name/Downloads/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x70b46bd <__cxa_allocate_exception+61>: addl $0x1,0x4(%eax)
 PC (0x070b46bd) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x4(%eax)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 __cxa_allocate_exception () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 Xapian::Database::Database(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/_xapian.so
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
 PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 259219, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find