My Ubuntu Software Center keeps crashing when I try to run it. What's even weirder is that this is happening on two laptops and across two versions of Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.10). On 14.04 this is the error that comes up:
...$ software-center
2016-12-07 20:03:48,104 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
2016-12-07 20:03:48,496 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2016-12-07 20:03:48,498 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2016-12-07 20:03:48,537 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO - aptcache.open()
2016-12-07 20:03:48,780 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - error creating bsddb: '(22, 'Invalid argument -- BDB0054 illegal flag combination specified to DB_ENV->open')' (corrupted?)
2016-12-07 20:03:48,781 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - ERROR - trying to repair DB failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/reviews/__init__.py", line 358, in _save_review_stats_cache_blocking
self._dump_bsddbm_for_unity(outfile, outdir)
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/reviews/__init__.py", line 377, in _dump_bsddbm_for_unity
0600)
DBInvalidArgError: (22, 'Invalid argument -- BDB0054 illegal flag combination specified to DB_ENV->open')
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py:535: Warning: Source ID 74 was not found when attempting to remove it
return super(MainContext, self).iteration(may_block)
Bus error (core dumped)
I tried various things to fix it (including How can I fix my software center? and Software-center crashes: bug or configuration error?), and even more on my 16.10 machine and in the end I don't recall anything ever working properly. Besides, both times it was happening on fresh installs of ubuntu. Anyone know how to fix this?
Bus errorsignificant in any way? Because my firefox is also crashing and the last line is the same.