software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()

[Oladapo Kayode]

Ubuntu Software Centre close unexpecteldly.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.5-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 2 08:48:38 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4dbe28: mov 0x8(%rbp),%rax
 PC (0x004dbe28) ok
 source "0x8(%rbp)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SoftwareCenterLog:
 2011-12-02 08:44:57,208 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 13 20
 2011-12-02 08:45:02,562 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
 2011-12-02 08:45:02,979 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.utils - INFO - Softwarecenter style provider for ambiance Gtk theme: /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
 2011-12-02 08:45:16,381 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 0
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 PyGILState_Ensure ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.so
 g_datalist_clear () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benjamin Geese (ben-8409)]

This affects me as well. It happened to me after trying to install Xchat from Software Centre. Nothing happened when i clicked on install apart from the button label changing for some time and then reverting back to "Install". After that, USC finally crashed.

[wolfen69 (wolfen69)]

Using 12.04 64 fully updated. Nothing happens when I click the install button.

[maninred (maninred)]

The same, no installation of packages with wider dependences possible.

[Lee Goldsmith (leetgoldsmith)]

Same problem here when I tried to install dropbox.

[Grae (hdfegely)]

USC locked up all apt-* processes when I received this error. Tried to use Synaptic Package Manager after the USC error and had to go into terminal to run "apt-get update" and then only used SPM to install software.

Fresh/clean install of 12.04b1 32-bit .. did not upgrade from 11.10