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software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in ToggleSourceUse(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #831652 reported by tatiwata on 2011-08-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #820028: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 99-100: ordinal not in range(128). Edit Remove

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This bug affects 41 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned
	Oneiric	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

software-properties crashes while trying to delete repository-sources in synaptic.
Restarting synaptic after the crash still shows up the repo meant to be removed, crashes again as I try to remove it over again.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 22 23:30:25 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 81789057
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_CH:en
LC_MESSAGES=fr_CH.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '81789057']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in ToggleSourceUse(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-20 (2 days ago)
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tatiwata (rodolphe-bosch-hotmail) wrote on 2011-08-22:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (46.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (754 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (926 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

visibility:

private → public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2011-08-24

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-08-24

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2011-08-28

tags:

added: bugpattern-needed

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2011-09-01

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2011-09-01

tags:

removed: bugpattern-needed

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote on 2011-09-08:

This bug tends to collect duplicates. Michael, can you look at it please?

tags:

removed: amd64

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Olosta (hameltho) wrote on 2011-10-04:

I have the impression that this bug is linked to the parsing of this kind of repo file (notice the non ASCII characters in the comments):
$ cat mozillateam-thunderbird-stable-natty.list
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-stable/ubuntu oneiric main # désactivé pour la mise à niveau vers oneiric
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-stable/ubuntu oneiric main # désactivé pour la mise à niveau vers oneiric

This is a big problem because the accents (é, à...) are added by the Ubuntu upgrade tool....

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MARTIN Francois (fmartin2) wrote on 2011-10-08:

for several weeks, this bug had disappeared with an update. Today again the problem and crash!

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Camille Appert (bibinou) wrote on 2011-10-08:

Seems like it was related to bug #846044, which is now fixed.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote on 2011-10-08:

Bibinou says he made a mistake and didn't actually want to mark it as fixed.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Fix Released → Triaged

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-10-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #820028, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.