Apport dialogs appear immediately on software-center startup, with a new one appearing every 10 seconds or so. The software-center main window remains open, but the actual content area (where search results, etc. are displayed) is completely blank.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.23.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 21 12:49:22 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError: Couldn't find conversion for foreign struct 'cairo.Context'
Traceback: TypeError: Couldn't find conversion for foreign struct 'cairo.Context'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-19 (2 days ago)
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This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #625018. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.