"GtkWarning: could not open display" during update

[David Ayers]

The following package triggers failed upon update:
Note, that the language-pack-gnome-de is already reported separately, what is new is the failure of the software center trigger while trying to open a display,

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Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von language-pack-gnome-de 1:10.10+20110315 (durch .../language-pack-gnome-de_1%3a10.10+20110531_all.deb) ...

Entpacke Ersatz für language-pack-gnome-de ...

Ersetze die Dateien im alten Paket language-pack-gnome-de-base ...

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-de_1%3a10.10+20110531_all.deb (--unpack):

 Versuche, »/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket language-pack-de 1:10.10+20110531 ist

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: Unterprozess einfügen mit Signal (Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)) getötet

Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.17+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 (durch .../xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1_amd64.deb) ...

Removing obsolete conffile /etc/gre.d/1.9.2.17.system.conf ...

Entpacke Ersatz für xulrunner-1.9.2 ...

Verarbeite Trigger für software-center ...

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display

  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

Verarbeite Trigger für python-central ...

Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-de_1%3a10.10+20110531_all.deb

Richte xulrunner-1.9.2 ein (1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1) ...

update-alternatives: Verwende /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.2, um /usr/bin/xulrunner (xulrunner) in Auto-Modus bereitzustellen.

Verarbeite Trigger für libc-bin ...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

I do not think this is a duplicate of either #721653 or #665659

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.54-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 22 10:57:23 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #665659, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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