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

[Tim]

On 27/10/13 13:17, Tim wrote:
> 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?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> 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)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
OK answering my own question, I tried reinstalling Software Centre again 
(4 packages software-center (13.10-0ubuntu1), 
software-center-aptdaemon-plugins (0.1.6), software-properties-common 
(0.92.27), software-properties-gtk (0.92.27) ) and it is now working or 
at least seems to be. But while watching it install (via Synaptic) I 
noticed this warning:

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

I checked and those two files are there in/usr/share/app-install/desktop 
and have the same owner and permission as all the other files in the folder.

I wont be submitting a bug report, because having tired to do so with a 
previous bug I spent over 2 hours and failed to submit a report (it 
really needs to be made easier).

Tim