Comment 7 for bug 1161283

My software center is crashing on startup, when reinstalling

sudo apt-fast install --reinstall software-center

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libboost-filesystem1.49.0 libboost-program-options1.49.0
  libboost-thread1.49.0 libdb4.8++ libqrencode3
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
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(Reading database ... 329798 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu2 (using .../software-center_5.6.0-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement software-center ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up software-center (5.6.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Updating software catalog...this may take a moment.
INFO:softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache:aptcache.open()
WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser-layer.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/workrave:workrave.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
Software catalog update was successful.

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When running from terminal

software-center
2013-05-19 12:14:04,727 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
2013-05-19 12:14:05,360 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2013-05-19 12:14:05,369 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51, 'find_module')'
2013-05-19 12:14:05,369 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for LaunchpadIntegration
2013-05-19 12:14:05,431 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO - aptcache.open()

(software-center:3885): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'software-center' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 2734 error_code 9 request_code 62 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)