Thank you! I was figuring out a way out of that error! And it worked! Uninstall and reinstall the programs, that was it!
Thank you for your concern to that problem! S. ________________________________ From:Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> To:stefanita1...@yahoo.com Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 2:57:32 PM Subject: [Bug 507836] Re: [master] software-center crashed with DatabaseModifiedError in _database_gen_postlist_iter() It looks like the following is triggering this problem (a clasical race condition): - a update() operation from the backend (reload, enable channel) triggers a apt-xapian-index update with --update - when the update is finished, a cache-ready signal is emited, that causes the various views to be refreshed - during this refresh the gtk event loop keeps running to keep the UI alive - when apt-xapian-index finishes, it reopens the DB - if the a-x-i update finishes quicker than the refresh triggered by the cache update finishes (its runs with --update so that can happen) then it can be in the middle of a "for m in self.xapiandb.postlist() operation. at this point the returned iterators are no longer valid because the DB got reopenend and xapian detects that (the iterators are for the previous generation of the DB) -- [master] software-center crashed with DatabaseModifiedError in _database_gen_postlist_iter() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507836 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug (619142). Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: software-center I was browsing the software store, after Delete Solitaire, the software store crashed. I'm running Lucid Lynx from USB, 2GB and was trying to get some free space. Ubuntu 10.4 AMD64 ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 15 09:08:52 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100113) Package: software-center 1.1.8 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center'] SourcePackage: software-center Tags: lucid Title: software-center crashed with DatabaseModifiedError in _database_gen_postlist_iter() Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/507836/+subscribe -- [master] software-center crashed with DatabaseModifiedError in _database_gen_postlist_iter() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
