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software-center crashed with SystemError in open(): E:Type 'a' is not known on line 58 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

Bug #864677 reported by cexen on 2011-10-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

nothing

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 26 00:16:16 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with SystemError in open(): E:Type 'a' is not known on line 58 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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cexen (cemburbut) wrote on 2011-10-02:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (144 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (39.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (729 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SoftwareCenterLog.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (722 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2011-10-02

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removed: need-duplicate-check

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Tha

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private → public

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Thanks for your report. There is a syntax error at line 58 in /etc/apt/sources.list
I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 633626 because s-c should crash silently.