Software Center broken?

brent

tomscharbach cannot replicate in Budgie. installed (then uninstalled) Conky-Manager in the SC. It was flawless.

tomscharbach

mw42815 snaps and flatpaks do not seem to be affected

Snaps and Flatpaks are external to the Software Center, so issues with the Software Center are unlikely to affect either.

tomscharbach

WetGeek I think I should try reinstalling it. I didn't know the official repro name for it. ...
I just did that, and the result when I ran it in the terminal was the same. Segmentation fault.

Try generic package troubleshooting:
sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall

WetGeek

tomscharbach Try generic package troubleshooting

Good idea. Solus-sc could be perfect, but some dependencies may be broken instead.

Indeed, several were identified and reinstalled -- mostly Python 2 related. (Also nfs-utils, if anyone is interested, but that's been "broken" for a long time and still works fine for me.)

mw42815

okay i finally got it to work and installed Freecad application ...here are the steps i took . maybe it will work for you.

1open terminal

sudo eopkg dc to clear cache
sudo eopkg rdb to rebuild databases. type yes when prompted
sudo eopkg ur to update repo
sudo eopkg install packagename (freecad in my case) to install app.

remember to type your sudo password when prompted.

tomscharbach

WetGeek Well, segmentation errors are almost always related to memory addressing issues, as you no doubt know, and/or core file issues.

You might try @mw42815's solution -- clear the cache and rebuild the repository just in case something is tangled between the repo and memory.

But I was serious about asking whether you had the problem on other builds. I assume you are using the Latitude, and if you don't have the problem on the Precision, that suggests a local issue on the Latitude rather than a Software Center issue.

mw42815

well i have successfully installed over a dozen apps and uninstalled them in the software center from six categories. No problems. BTW my system is a Lenovo Thinkpad e585 laptop with 8 gig of ram , a 250 gig ssd , and solus budgie as my solo OS. hope it works out for everyone else.

tomscharbach

mw42815 i have successfully installed over a dozen apps and uninstalled them in the software center from six categories. No problems.

I assume that is after you straightened out the repo?

mw42815

yes.

jamcu2

I installed Solus Mate this afternoon. I opened the software center and selected the Brave browser for installation. A dialogue popped up with a list of dependencies to install. I pressed the install button on that and the installation appeared to go smoothly. However, before I could confirm that the installation process had completed the software center window disappeared from the desktop. It would not restart.

I logged out and logged back in to find that the browser was installed and an entry was placed in the menu. I am posting from the browser now.

However, the software center is still broken. I opened a terminal and entered the command "solus-sc" and got this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/solus-sc", line 15, in <module>
from solus_sc.application import ScApplication
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solus_sc/init.py", line 14, in <module>
import gi.repository
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/init.py", line 42, in <module>
from . import _gi
ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct

I not sure what to do about that. Any thoughts?

joebonrichie

Open a terminal and type sudo eopkg up and do a full upgrade. libffi was updated to .so.7 a long time ago so i'm guessing a partial update occurred.

jamcu2

joebonrichie Open a terminal and type sudo eopkg up and do a full upgrade. libffi was updated to .so.7 a long time ago so i'm guessing a partial update occurred.

Thank you for your response. After I posted this issue the thought that something went wrong during the update process did occur to me so I did a clean install. The update went smoothly and all is well. Software Center seems to be functioning properly. I look forward to using this as my daily driver.