Thanks for your bugreport. It appears your proxy environment is set to a odd value. Can you please run: $ env|grep _proxy and attach the output?
** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974061 Title: piston_generic_helper.py crashed with ValueError in _get_proxy_info(): invalid literal for int() with base 10: '6649:8080' Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: While installing an update for VirtualBox, a crash report has opened, but the system work just normal, as far as I can see. The update is installed just normal. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: software-center 5.1.14.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Thu Apr 5 10:37:41 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py --datadir /usr/share/software-center/ SoftwareCenterRecommenderAPI recommend_app {"pkgname":\ "virtualbox-4.1"} PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py', '--datadir', '/usr/share/software-center/', 'SoftwareCenterRecommenderAPI', 'recommend_app', '{"pkgname": "virtualbox-4.1"}'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: piston_generic_helper.py crashed with ValueError in _get_proxy_info(): invalid literal for int() with base 10: '6649:8080' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-08 (56 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/974061/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp