software-center doesn't start

please reboot. then start software-center from terminal and when the crash happens paste the logs here

Hi, this is the crash log.
Thanks in advance.
Luca

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 80, in <module>
    app = SoftwareCenterApp(datadir, xapian_base_path)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 221, in __init__
    self.config = get_config()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/config.py", line 43, in get_config
    _software_center_config = SoftwareCenterConfig(SOFTWARE_CENTER_CONFIG_FILE)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/config.py", line 30, in __init__
    self.read(self.configfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 482, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /home/lucaolioso/.config/softwarecenter/softwarecenter.cfg, line: 1
'\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\xff\xb5\xbd\xe9z\xdb\xc6\xb2(\xfa\xdfO!!^4`B\x14)\x0fI\x08\xb5\xf8\xd9\xb2l+\x1ec9#\xa5\xf8k\x0c$!\x81\x83\x00P#y\x9e\xe7\xbc\xc7y\xb1[U=\xa0\x01\x82\x92\xb3\xf6\xbe+\xcb"\xd0\xe8\xb9\xab'

Make sure all the files are in the correct directories and can you please supply a little more information?

Didnt provide correct information to be a bug thus is a question.

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Hi Luca, I'm sorry that I did not see this question earlier. The problem you are seeing appears to be caused by a corrupted config file that is used by Software Center to store simple UI preferences such as window size, maximized state, etc. It's perfectly safe to just delete that file. In a terminal, type the following:

       rm ~/.config/softwarecenter/softwarecenter.cfg

After this, Software Center should start normally.

Please let me know if this does not fix the problem. Thanks!

Tank you very much Gary. Now Software Center works fine. Best Regards.
Luca Olioso

2010/7/30, Gary Lasker <email address hidden>:
> Your question #116825 on software-center in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+question/116825
>
> Gary Lasker posted a new comment:
> Hi Luca, I'm sorry that I did not see this question earlier. The
> problem you are seeing appears to be caused by a corrupted config file
> that is used by Software Center to store simple UI preferences such as
> window size, maximized state, etc. It's perfectly safe to just delete
> that file. In a terminal, type the following:
>
> rm ~/.config/softwarecenter/softwarecenter.cfg
>
> After this, Software Center should start normally.
>
> Please let me know if this does not fix the problem. Thanks!
>
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Thanks Luca, I'm glad to hear it worked!

Best regards,
Gary

Hi all,
I have a similar problem but USC doesn't start even if I remove softwarecenter.cfg.
Here is what I obtain in command line:
nikos@ubuntu-desktop:~/.config/softwarecenter$ /usr/bin/software-center
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 111, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.app import SoftwareCenterApp
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 53, in <module>
    from view.installedpane import InstalledPane
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/installedpane.py", line 35, in <module>
    from softwarepane import SoftwarePane
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/softwarepane.py", line 54, in <module>
    from appdetailsview_gtk import AppDetailsViewGtk as AppDetailsView
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 45, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.backend.zeitgeist_simple import zeitgeist_singleton
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/zeitgeist_simple.py", line 25, in <module>
    from zeitgeist.client import ZeitgeistClient
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/zeitgeist/client.py", line 36, in <module>
    from zeitgeist.datamodel import (Event, Subject, TimeRange, StorageState,
ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)