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software-center-dbus crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in parse_applications_menu(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #1198712 reported by Lockal
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This bug affects 38 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Recent version of software-center-dbus crashes while starting.

Not sure about additional information, but the stack trace may indicate in which circumstances it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 13.05-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-2.9-generic 3.10.0
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 7 22:54:49 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-05 (518 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-dbus crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in parse_applications_menu(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-19 (49 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

Related branches

lp://staging/~lockal/software-center/lp1198712
dobey: Approve
Diff: 14 lines (+3/-1)
1 file modified
softwarecenter/db/categories.py (+3/-1)
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Lockal (lockal) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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Lockal (lockal) wrote :

"0xd0" is the first byte of cyrillic UTF-8 characters.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1201156, 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.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Lockal (lockal) wrote :

Removing the duplicate status. Please mark bug #1201156 as a duplicate instead of this, because it is a private one and it was reported later.

Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
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