Gwibber

gwibber-service crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in meth(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe6' in position 33: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #954374 reported by Janus Sandsgaard on 2012-03-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gwibber	Fix Released	Low	David Klasinc	Gwibber 3.4
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Happened shortly after logging in.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gwibber-service 3.3.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Mar 13 20:37:23 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber-service
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber-service
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gwibber-service']
SourcePackage: gwibber
Title: gwibber-service crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in meth(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe6' in position 33: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Related branches

lp://staging/~bigwhale/gwibber/url-encode

Merged into lp://staging/gwibber at revision 1331

Ken VanDine: Approve on 2012-04-01

lp://staging/gwibber

lp://staging/gwibber/3.4

lp://staging/ubuntu/precise/gwibber

lp://staging/~webapps/+junk/gwibber-opensesame-packaging

Revision history for this message

Janus Sandsgaard (janusdk) wrote on 2012-03-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (37.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (817 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
gwibber.log.txt Edit (66.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-03-13

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2012-03-14

visibility:	private → public
Changed in gwibber:
assignee:	nobody → David Klasinc (bigwhale)
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
assignee:	David Klasinc (bigwhale) → nobody
milestone:	none → 3.4

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote on 2012-03-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) on 2012-03-14

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2012-03-15

Changed in gwibber:
assignee:	nobody → David Klasinc (bigwhale)

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David Klasinc (bigwhale) wrote on 2012-03-31:

I had a lot of trouble replicating this and I think I nailed it now. I'll produce a patch later today.

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2012-04-01

Changed in gwibber:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2012-04-03

Changed in gwibber:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-03:

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 3.4.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
gwibber (3.4.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Check shorten-urls setting in the dispatcher before attempting to
      shorten, patch thanks to Martin T. (LP: #896639)
    - Removing unnecessary 'Image' link from entries with images obtained
      through imgpreview() (Mark Tully) (LP: #966285)
    - Replace all instances of a hashtag's occurance in a tweet at once
      rather than one at a time (Mark Tully) (LP: #966467)
    - Replace all instances of a nick's occurance in a tweet at once rather
      than one at a time (Mark Tully) (LP: #966467)
    - Catch errors from creating the pixbuf separately from sending the
      notification (LP: #940182)
    - Encode URLs to UTF8 before using them. (LP: #954374)
-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:03:45 -0400