*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 743003 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743003
Hi dragonhahney, and thank you for your report. The issue you have encountered is actually a duplicate of bug 743003, and so I have marked it as such. Please note that this bug has been fixed in both Precise 12.04 LTS and in the current development version of Quantal. Please upgrade to 12.04 for the fix (and for many other improvements as well. Many thanks for your help! ** Visibility changed to: Public ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 743003 software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/joris/.cache/software-center' -- 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/1040060 Title: software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/ubuntu/.cache/software-center' Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: My laptop, HP 4525s, hard drive (500G) has been locked during re- loading ubuntu 11.04... ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: software-center 4.0 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Aug 22 13:25:12 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/ubuntu/.cache/software-center' UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1040060/+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