Errors when reporting sound issues
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When trying to report a bug with audio input from my webcam apport-bug crashes halfway through giving a python stack trace as shown below. Best guess is that the device reports itself as a "Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM)" and the unicode tm symbol isn't handled by the apport code.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
app.run_argv()
File "/usr/lib/
return self.run_
File "/usr/lib/
if self.run_
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
hookui.
File "/usr/lib/
self._response = getattr(self.ui, self._request_
File "/usr/share/
Gtk.
File "/usr/share/
md.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 108: ordinal not in range(128)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apport 1.23-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportLog:
ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:15 2011: called for pid 18860, signal 11
ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:15 2011: executable: /usr/bin/totem (command line "totem /tmp/tmpRgd7nG.
ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:23 2011: wrote report /var/crash/
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 6 00:04:00 2011
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)