software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()

[Jane Atkinson]

Even when it doesn't crash, Software Center is very slow to load.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.6-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 5 08:49:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8119f70: mov 0x4(%ebx),%edx
 PC (0x08119f70) ok
 source "0x4(%ebx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 PyGILState_Ensure ()
 pyglib_gil_state_ensure () from /usr/lib/libpyglib-gi-2.0-python2.7.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.so
 g_datalist_clear () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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