The culprit was found to be a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list file that
was not world readable. But I maintain my stance on the bug -- the
software center should be smart enough to recognize such an error and
report a meaningful error message rather than crashing.
Michael
On 02/24/2013 05:13 PM,
Public bug reported:
Software Center crashes on start-up. Running /usr/share/software-center
/software-center from the command line shows:
$ /usr/share/software-center/software-center
2013-02-24 17:12:42,495 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy
'None'
2013-02-24 17:12:42,497
