Comment 3 for bug 877627

I seem to have the same bug and software-center dies silently. I also upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10

When started from prompt, the following error message comes up:

michael@montreal:~$ software-center
2012-03-11 17:20:32,615 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 14 19
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 151, in <module>
    app = SoftwareCenterAppGtk3(datadir, xapian_base_path, options, args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 221, in __init__
    self.db.open(use_axi = self._use_axi)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py", line 200, in open
    self._axi_values = parse_axi_values_file()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py", line 52, in parse_axi_values_file
    (key, value) = line.split()
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack