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

Sun Oct 27 23:16:09 UTC 2013

@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')) ()

Someone reported my issue here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/358491/unable-to-turn-on-recommendations-in-ubuntu-software-center

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Tim <tim at xendistar.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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