software-center crashed with signal 5 in _XReadEvents()

Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10

software-center:
  Installed: 13.09-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 13.09-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 13.09-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected google-chrome to be installed. Instead after hitting install nothing happened.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 13.09-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-8.15-generic 3.11.1
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-8-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 3 20:30:27 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta i386 (20130926)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XReadEvents () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
Title: software-center crashed with signal 5 in _XReadEvents()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo