software-center-dbus crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in parse_applications_menu(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #1200093 reported by Nicolas DERIVE
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Bug Description

At session start, I got this crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 13.05-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-2.10-generic 3.10.0
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-2-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c4273c0f4f2b8d26cd6bf31cadfd2912
CheckboxSystem: a871981cb5bdf4d6ebd55be46becf77e
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Jul 11 08:15:36 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
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 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-25 (46 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access scanner tape users video

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :
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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
information type: Private → Public
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