Software Center gives false error messages.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Whilst using the software center I received multiple error messages entitled 'Application Problem' with a heading of 'Sorry, Ubuntu Software Center closed unexpectedly' yet the software center continued to work as normal without closing at all.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 17 21:24:49 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110705.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in decode(): expected string or buffer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
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 #805421, 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.