Software Center fails to start: BadWinidow

[Jim Patterson]

Software Center persistently fails to start. A window will appear, but will disappear within a few seconds, and the program exits.

Running it from a console permitted me to grab these error details:

jim@fuzzy:$ software-center
2011-09-12 01:45:24,872 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 15 21
2011-09-12 01:45:27,571 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-09-12 01:45:31,484 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 1

(software-center:7972): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.1.18/./gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c:4766 drawable is not a native X11 window

Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'software-center' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 1372 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Trace/breakpoint trap

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fc2d0c1a9f7a9107c5104c45d6ee1b22
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Mon Sep 12 01:50:02 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (6 days ago)

[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 #840227, 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.