Bug#917812: Your mail

[Joe Aczel]

Nathaniel Roach's response also resolved the issue for me.


On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:32:33 +0800 Nathaniel Roach 
<nroach44 at nroach44.id.au> wrote:

 > I had the same issue (packagekit worked fine until gnome-software
 > re-opened, where PK will crash), and on a hunch I followed
 > http://allnightburger.com/solved-gnome-software-center-frozen-in-fedora/
 > but for Debian:
 >
 >     sudo apt-get autoremove --purge packagekit gnome-software
 >
 > I noticed that the removal failed un-cleanly:
 >
 >     rmdir: failed to remove '/var/cache/app-info/': Directory not empty
 >
 > So I removed the folder
 >
 >     nroach44 at woody:~$ tree /var/cache/app-info/
 >     /var/cache/app-info/
 >     └── xmls
 >
 >     1 directory, 0 files
 >     nroach44 at woody:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/cache/app-info/
 >
 > And reinstalled task-gnome-desktop (to cover the pre-reqs removed by
 > autoremove above)
 >
 >     sudo apt-get install task-gnome-desktop
 >
 > And then restarted gnome-software (left it running, whoops) and it
 > started working fine. I figured it wasn't just a bug as my desktop
 > (fully updated like this machine) didn't have the issue.
 >
 > Hopefully this helps narrow down the issue.
 >