This sequence of commands is a very useful fix (that I had trouble
tracking down) so it deserves to be highlighted somehow!!
The solution worked for me on LinuxMint-13 (Maya64) when software-center
would start but the 'Quick filter' field had no effect. I assumed the
problem was similar as I had related errors when running:
$ update-apt-xapian-index -f
No handlers could be found for logger "softwarecenter.db.update"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 101, in <module>
if not indexer.setupIndexing(force=opts.force, system=opts.pkgfile is None):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 502, in
setupIndexing
values_seq = max(self.values.values()) + 1
ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence
$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/values
$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index -f
No handlers could be found for logger "softwarecenter.db.update"
Reading .desktop files from /usr/share/app-install/desktop/: done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 101, in <module>
if not indexer.setupIndexing(force=opts.force, system=opts.pkgfile is None):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 513, in
setupIndexing
addon.obj.init(dict(values=self.values), self.progress)
File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/cataloged_time.py", line 72, in init
self._package_cataloged_time =
cPickle.load(open(self._packages_cataloged_file))
$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p
$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index -f
Reading .desktop files from /usr/share/app-install/desktop/: done.
...
Rebuilding Xapian index: done.
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Software-center won't start
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