I have tracked this down to what appears to be a race condition triggered by
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/saucy/software- center/saucy/view/head:/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/lobbyview.py#L162 It seems that somehow it is trying to render the banner ad before the download has completed. (Once the images are cached locally it is required to clear out the software center cache, to be able to reproduce the crash) rm ~/.cache/software-center/piston-helper/* software-center (crashes on startup) software-center (loads correctly on the second run) Removing that above line from the code will avoid the crash on startup. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163886 Title: software-center crashed with signal 5 with the GNOME3 PPA on 13.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1163886/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
