Software Centre should fail gracefully on failures to open source lists
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: software-center
I ran the following command as suggested on http://
sudo wget http://
This created a file which was not readable:
$ ls -l /etc/apt/
-rw-r----- 1 root root 43 May 1 09:42 playonlinux.list
As a result the "Ubuntu Software Center" was entirely broken and it told me I had 0 packages installed. It should be able to deal with this or give me a reasonable error message. This caused me needless amounts of frustration.
When I finally launched synpatic from the command line it was clear what was going on:
E: Opening /etc/apt/
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → michael wentzell (mikewentz22) |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Ubuntu Software Center fails and swallows error message + Software Centre should fail gracefully on failures to open source lists |
Thank you for reporting a bug please be patient as your bug is fixed, although i may not set your status as triaged i am applying for the bug control team and this is one of my test bugs.