Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844811 Title: software-center crashed with IOError in _rescan(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/shachaf/.cache/software-center/apthistory.p' Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: no idea what happened ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: software-center 4.1.21 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 8 16:14:54 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center cheese ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'cheese'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center crashed with IOError in _rescan(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/shachaf/.cache/software-center/apthistory.p' Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/history_impl/apthistory.py", line 109, in _rescan pickle.dump(self._transactions, open(p, "w")) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/username/.cache/software-center/apthistory.p' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-06 (32 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev root sambashare sudo tape video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/844811/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp