[Bug 873078] Re: Featured apps section is broken

[mmiicc]

Hi Martin.
It didn't fix this for me.  After running USC from command line I get:

michal at michal-Inspiron-530-11:~$ software-center
2011-10-19 14:53:44,217 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 15 21
2011-10-19 14:53:44,877 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-10-19 14:53:44,963 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.utils - INFO - Softwarecenter style provider for ambiance Gtk theme: /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
2011-10-19 14:53:46,486 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py", line 109, in wrapper
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/availablepane.py", line 603, in on_application_activated
    self.display_details_page)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/viewmanager.py", line 151, in display_page
    self.navhistory.append(nav_item)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/navhistory.py", line 41, in append
    LOG.debug("appending: '%s'" % nav_item)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/navhistory.py", line 128, in __str__
    self.view_state)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
michal at michal-Inspiron-530-11:~$ 

Line with: “Traceback (most recent call last):” is when I click Braid
banner.

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Title:
  Featured apps section is broken

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “software-center” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Since a couple of days ago, the Featured section of Ubuntu Software
  Center is broken. Only one app, "Braid", is shown occupying the entire
  banner (sometimes with white borders) and clicking on it has no
  effect.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0.1.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 12 18:02:41 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-05 (7 days ago)

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