Software Center empty "No usefulness from server" "no username in config file"

Posted by Theron G. Burrough on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Theron G. Burrough
Published on 2012-04-30T04:09:50Z Indexed on 2012/10/17 5:26 UTC
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I upgraded to 12.04 LTS and ran Software Center while a few things were running, and crashed. (2 GB RAM on a Netbook.)

On reboot, Ubuntu One interface would not find any programs, neither installed (to run) nor available for download. So I launched Software Center, which opens, but does nothing. I click "Close" button and get a "Force Quit?" box. So I quit.

Did research, learned to run Software Center from Terminal:

2012-04-29 23:14:36,978 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file

Then tried the below without success:

Reinstallation of software center:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall software-center

Didn't work. Found this in a post: remove the config file for software-center then log out and back in

sudo rm -rf ~/.config/software-center

Didn't work. Reinstalled Software Center with Synaptic Package Manager. Still no dice!

And I am a Linux newbie, so I don't know where the Dickens that config file is. Help appreciated.

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