This may also affect update-manager, which also dumps core on my 15.04, but I don't know any way to make update-manager emit underlying error messages.
Effectively, I am unable to do a release-uprade to 15.10 now, as both software-center and update-manager are inoperative. William reported this in March 2015... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429235 Title: software-center core dumps, Ubuntu Vivid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1429235/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs