Copying over info from bug 1606238 now that this is no longer a duplicate of
that bug:
A workaround is to delete the contents of ~/.local/share/gnome-software/.
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I did the same, deleted the contents of ~/.local/share/gnome-software/ and it
worked for me too.
By the way, I also renamed the directory gnome-software and that worked as
well, a new dir called gnome-software was created during application startup.
It's a workaround but not a fix.
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1606238 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606238
Don't know if this helps ...
I ran 'gnome-software --verbose' and got this message several times:
(gnome-software:5189): Gs-DEBUG: cannot find plugin 'packagekit-refine'
And I noticed that the very last
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1606238 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606238
$ ls ~/.local/share/gnome-software/
install-queue ubuntu-reviews.db
Also:$ ls -l ~/.local/share/gnome-software/
total 272
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stormhike stormhike 27 May 3 08:45 install-queue
-rw-r--r-- 1
Public bug reported:
Entering gnome-software in a terminal results in a new process called
'gnome-software' but no window and no messages in the terminal. Doesn't
run using unity launcher either.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-software
