[xubuntu-users] Software Centre in Xubuntu 13:10 issue

[Tim]

I have an issue with Ubuntu Software Centre in my Xubuntu 13.10 install. 
I upgraded from 13.04 (in fact all the way from 12.04 over the past 
couple of years) and everything works OK except this. If I click on 
Ubuntu Software Centre on the start menu it will open and then disappear 
within 5 seconds.

If I start it from a terminal screen here is output I get (below between 
the dotted lines). To be honest I don't normally use it that much, only 
when I am looking for a bit of software to accomplish something I am doing.

Is this a bug? Is it a simple fix?

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mit at romulus:~$ software-center
2013-10-27 13:10:40,789 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up 
proxy 'None'
2013-10-27 13:10:40,936 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to 
use geoclue: 
'org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.GeoclueErrorQuark.Code1: 
Geoclue master client has no usable Address providers'
2013-10-27 13:10:41,247 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - 
Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2013-10-27 13:10:41,250 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating 
plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from 
'/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2013-10-27 13:10:41,254 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the 
root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51, 
'find_module')'
2013-10-27 13:10:41,254 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for 
LaunchpadIntegration
2013-10-27 13:10:41,299 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO 
- aptcache.open()
2013-10-27 13:10:42,531 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the 
root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py', 
271, 'get_title_from_html')'
2013-10-27 13:10:42,531 - root - WARNING - failed to parse: '<div 
style="background-color: #161513; width:1680px; height:200px;">
  <div style="background: 
url('/site_media/exhibits/2013/09/AAMFP_Leaderboard_700x200_1.jpg') top 
left no-repeat; width:700px; height:200px;"></div>
</div>' ('ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 70: 
ordinal not in range(128))

(software-center:9081): 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 1481 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)
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Regards

Tim