Seems the el pais related exception is not required for the core symptom. I just simply rebooted and refreshed the news scope twice (with el pais disabled in news). I saw no exceptions in the scope- registry.log, but the hang on a long refresh followed by dash restart did occur.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity-scopes-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1599754 Title: Dash restarts in the middle while refreshing or navigating Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in canonical-scopes-project: Confirmed Status in frieza: New Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: current build number: 15 device name: frieza channel: ubuntu-touch/rc/bq-aquaris-pd.en last update: 2016-07-04 18:00:02 version version: 15 version ubuntu: 20160629 version tag: OTA-12-rc version device: 20160622.0 version custom: 20160624--41-15-vivid Steps: 1.Open news scope 2.Change the number of results in scope setting repeatedly actual: Sometimes, scopes hangs in refreshing state for ~3 minutes, then dash restarts expected: no hang and dash restart To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1599754/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp