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software-properties package

Software properties is unable to modify sources with non-ASCII characters in comment

Bug #1071183 reported by Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz on 2012-10-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1069019: [software-properties-gtk] can not delete, enable or modify any software source with non-ASCII characters in the comment. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

During update to Quantal all non-Ubuntu APT sources have been disabled and commented with "wyłączony podczas aktualizacji do quantal". This causes software-properties to fail to modify those sources. When I click on the checkbox to re-enable one of them, an authentication window pops-up but after typing my password nothing happens. Removing non-ASCII characters fixes this for given source. I've checked and both Polish, Swedish and Ukrainian (cyrylics) non-ASCII characters cause this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 25 10:34:26 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-24 (243 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-24 (0 days ago)

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Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz (kelner) wrote on 2012-10-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (8.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Olivier Febwin (febcrash) wrote on 2012-11-05:

Same problem in french with "é" character.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-11-05:

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

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-11-09:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1069019, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.