update-software-center crashed with ValueError in /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/application.py: bad marshal data (digit out of range in long) during dpkg trigger

[Andy Whitcroft]

Unsolicited after an update and reboot.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.14.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 10 08:43:46 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/update-software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-software-center --triggered /usr/share/locale-langpack
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-software-center', '--triggered', '/usr/share/locale-langpack']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: update-software-center crashed with ValueError in /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/application.py: bad marshal data (digit out of range in long)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-01 (68 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Uh, that looks like python was not in a good state when this happend or some byte compilation was going on?
Could you attach /var/log/apt/history.log please to see what else was happening when this crashed?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for software-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1058884, so it 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.