Software Center Broke

BruceElephant

Hello!

I have been having this problem with Software Center for some time but since I mostly use the terminal for package management I was lazy in reporting it.

Anyway here it goes! The problem is that the program does not start when accessed from the Kickoff but only when run from the terminal.

And here's the output:

8 CPUs detected, restricting to 2 threads (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends (solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends gtk-icon-theme-error-quark: Icon 'application-x-addon' not present in theme breeze-dark (0)

Does anyone have any idea of how can this be fixed?

brent

Mine launches from menu and terminal launch is clean. Likely you have a broken packages. See what it is:
sudo eopkg check
also make sure you are updated: sudo eopkg up

Max_The_Bear

If like me you are too lazy to search through the entire output of eopkg check and then reinstall any broken packages yourself, you can use
sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
to both search for broken packages and have them automatically reinstalled for you.

BruceElephant

Right, so I did sudo eopkg up and everything was up to date.
Then I did sudo eopkg check and I found that noto-sans-ttf was broken. I removed and then reinstalled.
I did sudo eopkg check again and everything looks OK but Software Center still does not launch. I'm getting the same error messages as before. : /

BruceElephant

Obviously it has something to do with Budgie but I don't get why, yes, why!? because I'm running Plasma not Budgie. : / Meeeh, I wish I could install Discover or something.

Still, it's not that bad, at least terminal update works and now you guys taught me two new commands. I'm grateful for that! Thank you! : )

brent

BruceElephant I don't know what this means:

8 CPUs detected, restricting to 2 threads
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.041: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:1474): As-WARNING **: 23:45:10.048: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends
gtk-icon-theme-error-quark: Icon 'application-x-addon' not present in theme breeze-dark (0)

...but I didn't notice the first time but it threw a GTK icon error....sometimes themes are not interchangeable...kde or otherwise...try switching icons to another theme?
It will fix this or rule out theming as the issue.
Other than that I got nothin regarding that terminal output.
***also incompatible themes will not draw a eopkg check error asfaik.

brent

BruceElephant
ahhhh....was thinking...this also has all the characteristics of a corrupt desktop file (that holds the pinbar apps I think)...there's a lot of fixes for that in the forum but I've never done it and that stuff is over my head.
all I got is theming or desktop file for this one. I sincerely hope you get another opinion

tomscharbach

BruceElephant Obviously it has something to do with Budgie but I don't get why, yes, why!? because I'm running Plasma not Budgie.

I do not understand why your Plasma build has Budgie applets. To my best knowledge, my Plasma builds have none.

A question born of complete ignorance: When you run sudo eopkg check, are any of the Budgie applets listed?

infinitymdm

brent I don't think this necessarily has anything to do with Budgie applets. I think that the Software Center is just complaining about the xml files which contain information about a few Budgie applets. Those warnings also appear in my terminal when I run solus-sc.

Here's my terminal output, with the Software Center working just fine:

marcus@pc ~ $ solus-sc
8 CPUs detected, restricting to 2 threads
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.153: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.153: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.153: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.160: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.160: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:6428): As-WARNING **: 18:01:45.160: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends

Immediately of note is that I don't have that last warning about the missing icon. I'd suggest trying a different icon pack (I'm using Papirus-Dark from papirus-icon-theme in the repos) and seeing if you get results. If there's no change, then you can eliminate that from your troubleshooting.

infinitymdm

brent why do you [...] find the gtk icon error insignificant?

Actually, I don't find it insignificant. I thought that perhaps it could be the cause of the issue. But now that tomscharbach has shown his works with the same error (launched from terminal or Kickoff) I think we can eliminate that as a root cause.

Now I suspect what brent theorized earlier: a misconfigured desktop file.

Here are the contents of my desktop file at /usr/share/applications/solus-sc.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Software Center
GenericName=Software Center
Comment=Install, Remove and Update System Software
Exec=/usr/bin/solus-sc
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=system-software-install
Categories=X-GNOME-Settings-Panel;PackageManager;System;Settings
Keywords=Updates;Upgrade;Sources;Repositories;Preferences;Install;Uninstall;Program;Software;App;Store;
Actions=view-updates;

[Desktop Action view-updates]
Name=Updates
Exec=solus-sc --update-view

@BruceElephant if yours doesn't match that, perhaps that is our culprit.

tomscharbach

infinitymdm I don't think this necessarily has anything to do with Budgie applets. I think that the Software Center is just complaining about the xml files which contain information about a few Budgie applets. Those warnings also appear in my terminal when I run solus-sc.

Me, too:

tomscharbach@ts-plasma-portable ~ $ solus-sc
8 CPUs detected, restricting to 2 threads
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.467: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.467: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.467: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.477: com.github.cybre.budgie-haste-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.477: com.github.cybre.budgie-screenshot-applet was of type addon but had no extends
(solus-sc:8334): As-WARNING **: 18:08:43.477: com.github.danielpinto8zz6.budgie-calendar-applet.appdata.xml was of type addon but had no extends
gtk-icon-theme-error-quark: Icon 'application-x-addon' not present in theme breeze-dark (0)
tomscharbach@ts-plasma-portable ~ $

The Software Center works fine for me, too, or more accurately it update correctly on September 27.

@BruceElephant Ignore my question about Budgie applets. It was a question born of complete ignorance.

brent

infinitymdm it wasn't me who theorized about applets. my guesses were theming or corrupt desktop file
edit: I was more of the gtk inside of plasma potential

brent

still a heck of a mystery.
why do you both (infinitymdm tomscharbach ) find the gtk icon error insignificant? why is plasma referencing budgie xml metadata (for lack of a better term) at all when launching the gui from the menu?
edit: from the terminal I mean
the shortcut in menu can't be accessed

infinitymdm

brent Oh, whoops. I must've misclicked the reply button and failed to catch it on a review pass. My bad!

brent

infinitymdm all good i do it all the time!

Axios

https://dev.getsol.us/T4306
Has there been no software updates lately
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/3089-software-center-not-opening/3
https://dev.getsol.us/D370

Harvey

That task is ancient and has absolutely nothing to do with this users current issue. The lines about applets are warnings not errors and will occur regardless of your DE. They can be ignored.

brent

infinitymdm you are right, you and tom could launch SC from the menu---so these warnings are neglibile/moot. I dont have plasma for context.
solus-sc.desktop may have a clue in it. There's a few ways one can wreck that file.

Harvey

Any modification to /usr/share/applications/solus-sc.desktop would have been caught by sudo eopkg check and reported solus-sc as Broken. Since the user has already run that command and everything is reporting as "OK" now, it clearly isn't the cause.

infinitymdm

Harvey Good to know. Just working within the limits of my own knowledge here. I appreciate the help expanding those limits a tad 👍️

brent

Harvey
interesting; did not know something like that would be check - detected.. I think noto-sans ttf was the only thing that BTE's check found. I keep thinking 'cant launch app from menu' is easy somehow😉.

edit: nevermind it was fleeting