Hi Kiwinote, thanks a lot for the nice, clean fix! It does the trick
perfectly. It's merged to trunk and will be available in the next
development release of Software Center which should appear at the very
early part of next week.
Regarding the question about why we have seen a spate of duplicates of
this problem in recent days, the timing seems to indicate that this is
likely a side-consequence of the recent SIGSEGV crasher that so many
people experienced (bug 259219). One possible scenario is that that many
people, in an attempt to work around the SIGSEGV crash, attempted to
launch software-center with root privileges. That said, I'm still not
entirely sure of the exact conditions that would have resulted in this
problem as I myself have not been able to reproduce this issue.
However, the fact is that, very soon after the fix for bug 259219 was
released, we saw a spike in reports of this bug. Now, a few days later,
we no longer see these reports.
The good news is that your fix will prevent this particular issue from
being a problem in the future. Thanks again for that!
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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