Software Center does not load following upgrade to 14.04

Ken Rawlings solved this problem by performing a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Thanks you!

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Mark Rijckenberg <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Ken Rawlings solved this problem by performing a clean install of Ubuntu
> 14.04 LTS.
>
> ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349541
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> Title:
> Software Center does not load following upgrade to 14.04
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> - Load of icon from dash reflects busy/loading for a moment then stops.
>
> - Load from terminal window reflects the following error and terminates.
>
> kenr@Aspen:~$ sudo software-center
> [sudo] password for kenr:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 128, in <module>
> from softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app import SoftwareCenterAppGtk3
> File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line
> 106, in <module>
> from softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.panes.installedpane import InstalledPane
> File
> "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/installedpane.py",
> line 34, in <module>
> from softwarecenter.db.categories import (CategoriesParser,
> File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/categories.py",
> line 30, in <module>
> import lxml.etree as ET
> ImportError: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1: symbol
> xmlBufContent, version LIBXML2_2.9.0 not defined in file libxml2.so.2 with
> link time reference
>
>
> kenr@Aspen:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
> Release: 14.04
>
> kenr@Aspen:/var/log$ apt-cache policy software-center
> software-center:
> Installed: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
> Candidate: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
> Version table:
> *** 13.10-0ubuntu4.1 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 13.10-0ubuntu4 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
> kenr@Aspen:/var/log$
>
> Addition information can be found in a thread at the following link:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-
> center/+question/252261
>
> The individual there recommended that I open this issue as a bug.
>
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