<div dir="ltr"><div>@Tim: I remember seeing those same x-sonicvisualiser warnings during the upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10, but I ignored them. Software Center works fine for me, as far as I can tell (I rarely use it over apt-get or Synaptic Package Manager). I do get some errors when trying to turn on recommendations though: 2013-10-27 15:59:19,333 - softwarecenter.backend.login_impl.login_sso - ERROR - _on_credentials_error for Ubuntu One: dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'errtype'): dbus.String(u'GUINotAvailableError'), dbus.String(u'message'): dbus.String(u'Can not find a GUI to present to the user (tried with "(\'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\', \'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\')"). Aborting.')}, signature=dbus.Signature('ss')) () </div>Someone reported my issue here: <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/358491/unable-to-turn-on-recommendations-in-ubuntu-software-center">http://askubuntu.com/questions/358491/unable-to-turn-on-recommendations-in-ubuntu-software-center</a> </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Tim <<a href="mailto:tim@xendistar.co.uk" target="_blank">tim@xendistar.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 27/10/13 13:17, Tim wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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@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 </blockquote></div></div> 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).<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> Tim -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>