software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()

[Gabor Toth]

I just got this crash while focus was on another application. There is a number of reports of it but as these are on 11.04 or 12.04 i am reporting it here for 11.10.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.2ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Dec 15 19:21:37 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center gnomad2/Gnomad\ 2
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8119f10: mov 0x4(%ebx),%edx
 PC (0x08119f10) 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 (datalist=0x9e26d40) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./glib/gdataset.c:282
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (62 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner vboxusers video

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #893501, 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.