Hello Dwi, or anyone else affected, Accepted ubuntu-drivers-common into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /ubuntu-drivers-common/1:0.4.17.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320868 Title: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte" when removing nvidia-current package Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: $sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'nvidia-current' is not installed, so not removed The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: linux-image-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up nvidia-331 (331.38-0ubuntu7) ... INFO:Enable nvidia-331 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/quirks-handler", line 65, in <module> operation_status = main(options) File "/usr/bin/quirks-handler", line 44, in main quirks = Quirks.quirkapplier.QuirkChecker(options.package_enable, path=quirks_path) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Quirks/quirkapplier.py", line 38, in __init__ self._system_info = self.get_system_info() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Quirks/quirkapplier.py", line 64, in get_system_info return quirk_info.get_dmi_info() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Quirks/quirkinfo.py", line 46, in get_dmi_info 'class', 'dmi', 'id', item)).read().strip() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte dpkg: error processing package nvidia-331 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-331 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1320868/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp