Laney says it's the same issue than https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784251 which is fixed upstream now
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #784251 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784251 ** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Also affects: gnome-software via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784251 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702071 Title: Search spins forever, returns no results. Status in GNOME Software: Unknown Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: alan@gort:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-software gnome-software: Installed: 3.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1 Candidate: 3.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1 Version table: *** 3.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1 500 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop/gnome-software/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.20.1+git20170524.0.ea2fe2b0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 3.20.1+git20160420.1.ca63436.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu2 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages I mentioned to Robert last week that I keep getting the spinner and no results returned when searching in g-s on 16.04. He suggested I update to the version in the PPA and enable logging to capture what's happening. Log attached. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-software/+bug/1702071/+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