Here's a candidate fix for anyone suffering with this or similar. I've just resolved this on my installation, by removing all the *.pyc files in /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db.
cd /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db sudo rm *.pyc Seems to indicate an incorrect compile of the python *.py to *.pyc files or even a local corruption. Running the software center recompiled the *.pyc files. I'm glad that's sorted; took most of the day to get here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010077 Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with ValueError in /usr/share /software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py: bad marshal data (unknown type code) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/1010077/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
