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update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #736892 reported by Simon Hard on 2011-03-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #926340: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Update manager crashed when i called it up from the menu.
It displayed applicable updates, asked for my credentials and crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.146.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 17 15:38:44 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl:en_GB:en
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-23 (22 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Simon Hard (simon-hard) wrote on 2011-03-17:

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Simon Hard (simon-hard) wrote on 2011-03-17:

This was from a working installation, started from alpha1 upgraded to alpha2, has been running for weeks now

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-03-17: This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #732169, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.