Bug#917812:

[Fedor Uvarov]

I'm also affected by this bug. The following lines from journalctl
appear to be relevant - PackageKit crashes like this every time
gnome-software is started.

Jan 17 02:27:03 Melchior-2 dbus-daemon[870]: [session uid=1000
pid=870] Activating service name='org.gnome.Software' requested by
':1.10' (uid=1000 pi
Jan 17 02:27:03 Melchior-2 dbus-daemon[870]: [session uid=1000
pid=870] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Software'
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 gnome-software[1660]: plugin appstream took
3,0 seconds to do setup
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 gnome-software[1660]: enabled plugins:
desktop-categories, fwupd, os-release, packagekit, packagekit-local,
packagekit-offl
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 gnome-software[1660]: disabled plugins:
dpkg, dummy, repos, epiphany
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 dbus-daemon[494]: [system] Activating via
systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
unit='packagekit.service' requ
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 systemd[1]: Starting PackageKit Daemon...
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 PackageKit[1666]: daemon start
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 dbus-daemon[494]: [system] Successfully
activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 systemd[1]: Started PackageKit Daemon.
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 PackageKit[1666]: uid 1000 is trying to
obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth
(only_trusted:0)
Jan 17 02:27:06 Melchior-2 PackageKit[1666]: uid 1000 obtained auth
for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
Jan 17 02:27:10 Melchior-2 packagekitd[1666]: terminate called after
throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
Jan 17 02:27:10 Melchior-2 packagekitd[1666]:   what():
basic_string::_M_replace
Jan 17 02:27:10 Melchior-2 systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Main
process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Jan 17 02:27:10 Melchior-2 systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Failed with
result 'signal'.