Hi Joe, I'm very sorry for the trouble you've been having with this bug.
There is actually a workaround in comment #5 that will fix this problem
for you. I've added the workaround to the original bug description, and
will include it here so as well so that it's not buried in the many
comments. It involves typing a single command into the terminal, and
once this is done Software Center should work as expected from that
point on. Please give this a try and it should take care of the problem
for you.
WORKAROUND:
This bug can happen if the directory ~/.cache/software-center is created
with root ownership somehow (see bug 652151 for some possible scenarios
for how this might happen).
The fix is to set the ownership if this directory back to your user
account. You can do this by typing the following into a terminal window
(be sure to substitute your own username as noted below):
sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername ~/.cache/software-center
After this, Software Center should launch correctly.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: software-center
- live ubuntu from USB
+ WORKAROUND:
+
+ This bug can happen if the directory ~/.cache/software-center is created
+ with root ownership somehow (see bug 652151 for some possible scenarios
+ for how this might happen).
+
+ The fix is to set the ownership if this directory back to your user
+ account. You can do this by typing the following into a terminal window
+ (be sure to substitute your own username as noted below):
+
+ sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername ~/.cache/software-center
+
+ After this, Software Center should launch correctly.
+
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 10 20:37:24 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
- LANG=ru_UA.utf8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ LANG=ru_UA.utf8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with IOError in _open()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
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