Development release of software-center failed to open, it starts up but sipn never finishes.
here is the terminal messages
2011-11-21 20:05:16,700 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 13 20
2011-11-21 20:05:17,372 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-11-21 20:05:17,566 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.utils - INFO - Softwarecenter style provider for ambiance Gtk theme: /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
2011-11-21 20:05:20,671 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py', 51, 'find_module')'
2011-11-21 20:05:20,671 - root - ERROR - Could not find any typelib for Gst
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 1141, in show_lobby
self.view_manager.set_active_view(ViewPages.AVAILABLE)
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/viewmanager.py", line 125, in set_active_view
view_widget.init_view()
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/availablepane.py", line 110, in init_view
SoftwarePane.init_view(self)
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/softwarepane.py", line 280, in init_view
self)
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 698, in __init__
self._layout_page()
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 998, in _layout_page
from softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.widgets.videoplayer import VideoPlayer
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/videoplayer.py", line 24, in <module>
from gi.repository import Gst
ImportError: cannot import name Gst
2011-11-21 20:05:21,177 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 0
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 21 19:58:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111102)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
frum-ventrical
The Software Center is taking extremely large amounts of time and resources on systems running legacy AGP video cards (ATI) with the new Precise kernel 3.2.x.x and with Oneiric standard kernel in Unity 2D and Cairo doc. However , this is not always the case as with the use of a NVidia card or more recent higher end graphics card.
Even with a high end HDD the software Center will be very sluggish. It appears that it is hooking with and parsing some catalog file that may be a binary. Hence the inbuilt catalog reader may have a *wait* state in that config file??