Nathaniel Roach's response also resolved the issue for me.
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:32:33 +0800 Nathaniel Roach <nroac...@nroach44.id.au> wrote:
> I had the same issue (packagekit worked fine until gnome-software > re-opened, where PK will crash), and on a hunch I followed > http://allnightburger.com/solved-gnome-software-center-frozen-in-fedora/ > but for Debian: > > sudo apt-get autoremove --purge packagekit gnome-software > > I noticed that the removal failed un-cleanly: > > rmdir: failed to remove '/var/cache/app-info/': Directory not empty > > So I removed the folder > > nroach44@woody:~$ tree /var/cache/app-info/ > /var/cache/app-info/ > └── xmls > > 1 directory, 0 files > nroach44@woody:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/cache/app-info/ > > And reinstalled task-gnome-desktop (to cover the pre-reqs removed by > autoremove above) > > sudo apt-get install task-gnome-desktop > > And then restarted gnome-software (left it running, whoops) and it > started working fine. I figured it wasn't just a bug as my desktop > (fully updated like this machine) didn't have the issue. > > Hopefully this helps narrow down the issue. >
