Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- 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/936917 Title: piston_generic_helper.py crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/username/.cache/software-center/piston-helper' Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: It crash about a minute after openeing through Unity dash ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: software-center 5.1.9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Feb 20 13:03:13 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py --datadir /usr/share/software-center/ RatingsAndReviewsAPI get_usefulness {"username":\ "tict"} ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py', '--datadir', '/usr/share/software-center/', 'RatingsAndReviewsAPI', 'get_usefulness', '{"username": "tict"}'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: piston_generic_helper.py crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/username/.cache/software-center/piston-helper' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-19 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/936917/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
