Hi, and thank you for your bug report. Are you still experiencing this issue with recent versions of Software Center? Many fixes have been made since then and it's very possible that this issue has been resolved for you. If that is the case, please let us know so that we can close this bug, or feel free to close it yourself.
If you are still getting the error, however, and so that we can try to gather more information to help us to debug this issue, could you please try running Software Center from a terminal window as follows: $ software-center Then then please paste any output in the terminal to this bug report. Thanks! Your help is much appreciated! ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- 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: Incomplete 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