Gnome Software crashing upon startup

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Fedora WS 43 Gnome

I’ve been experiencing frequent crashes with Gnome Software. It crashes upon opening. Here are the details from Problem Reporting:

reason		gnome-software killed by SIGABRT
crash_function	g_assertion_message_expr.cold
executable	/usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
cmdline		/usr/bin/gnome-software
package		gnome-software-49.2-2.fc43
component	gnome-software

Logs
–Dec 20 15:57:06 fedora gnome-software\[5359\]: \*\*
Dec 20 15:57:06 fedora gnome-software\[5359\]: PackageKit:ERROR:../lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-client.c:4695:pk_client_finalize: assertion failed: (priv->calls->len == 0)
Dec 20 15:57:06 fedora gnome-software\[5359\]: Bail out! PackageKit:ERROR:../lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-client.c:4695:pk_client_finalize: assertion failed: (priv->calls->len == 0)
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Already reported I believe. I think I had a conversation with another user about it. A search should turn it up.

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May I suggest updating from the command line. Gnome Software on rare occasions introduces problems (other than your crashes).

If you do want to keep using it, upgrading or downgrading Gnome Software may fix the problem. You can do this from the command line :wink:

sudo dnf downgrade gnome-software

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In this case it looks like a downgrade of PackageKit might do the trick:

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