software-center crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.236 was not provided by any .service files

[David D Lowe]

This crash came about by clicking File, Reinstall Previous Purchases.

Had I not had Apport enabled, Software Centre would have sat there spinning indefinitely.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.1.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 22 15:27:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
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 DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.236 was not provided by any .service files
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-18 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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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 #863898, 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.