Oh, what the hey, I'm up anyway. Running from the command line (/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center) gave something that might be of interest: Start the review, console message was:
(software-center:15056): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to show 'none': Operation not supported Close the window with the review failure, and got: 2014-05-16 01:27:37,073 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper for '['/usr/share/software-center/submit_review_gtk3.py', '--pkgname', 'foobillardplus', '--iconname', 'foobillardplus', '--parent-xid', '', '--version', '3.43~svn170+dfsg-1', '--origin', 'ubuntu', '--datadir', '/usr/share/software-center/', '--appname', 'FooBillard++']' 2014-05-16 01:27:37,075 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: ' (submit_review_gtk3.py:15124): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkGrid.n-rows (submit_review_gtk3.py:15124): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_invalidate_rect_full: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed (submit_review_gtk3.py:15124): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_invalidate_rect_full: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed GwibberHelper.accounts() failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/gwibber_helper.py", line 45, in accounts "/com/gwibber/Accounts") File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__ self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner self.start_service_by_name(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name 'su', (bus_name, flags))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.Gwibber.Accounts was not provided by any .service files /usr/share/software-center/submit_review_gtk3.py:230: Warning: Source ID 48 was not found when attempting to remove it Gtk.main() submit_review Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/review_gui_helper.py", line 329, in _submit_reviews_if_pending res = self.rnrclient.submit_review(review=piston_review) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 71, in wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 151, in wrapper body = func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/piston/rnrclient_pristine.py", line 134, in submit_review scheme=AUTHENTICATED_API_SCHEME, content_type='application/json') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 816, in _post content_type=content_type, extra_headers=extra_headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 514, in post url, method='POST', body=body, headers=headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 435, in request_url body = handler.handle(response, response_body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/failhandlers.py", line 116, in handle data=self.data) APIError: 500: {'status': '500', 'content-length': '8634', 'server': 'Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)', 'connection': 'close', 'x-oops-id': 'OOPS-be993a135fdae06c5e26df4851d9b969', 'date': 'Fri, 16 May 2014 08:27:02 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'} <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <title>Oops!</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/light/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/light/css/reset.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/light/css/styles.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/light/css/forms.css"/> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="container-inner"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="ubuntu-header"><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a></h1> <ul id="main-menu"> <li><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/business">Business</a></li> ' /usr/bin/software-center:184: Warning: Source ID 3252 was not found when attempting to remove it Gtk.main() Just as a guess, the line about The name com.Gwibber.Accounts was not provided by any .service files looks to be indicative. I'm guessing that the leading com. is some sort of a typo ... Maybe a space was left out? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316481 Title: software-center "Failed to submit review" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1316481/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs