Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected, Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.13 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
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The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806076 Title: unattended-upgrade --help raises UnicodeEncodeError when stdout encoding is ascii Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in apt source package in Xenial: New Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial: Won't Fix Status in apt source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic: Won't Fix Bug description: [Impact] * unattended-upgrades --help crashes in apt.systemd.daily script when locale is not in UTF-8. [Test Case] In the fixed case no crash is observed. rbalint@yogi:~$ lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 bb-lp-1806076 Creating bb-lp-1806076 Starting bb-lp-1806076 rbalint@yogi:~$ lxc shell bb-lp-1806076 mesg: ttyname failed: No such device root@bb-lp-1806076:~# apt install -yqq language-pack-ru-base The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfreetype6 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: language-pack-ru The following NEW packages will be installed: language-pack-ru language-pack-ru-base 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 2310 kB of archives. After this operation, 11.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-ru-base. (Reading database ... 28536 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-ru-base_1%3a18.04+20180712_all.deb ... Unpacking language-pack-ru-base (1:18.04+20180712) ... Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-ru. Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-ru_1%3a18.04+20180712_all.deb ... Unpacking language-pack-ru (1:18.04+20180712) ... Setting up language-pack-ru (1:18.04+20180712) ... Setting up language-pack-ru-base (1:18.04+20180712) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... ru_RU.UTF-8... done ru_UA.UTF-8... done Generation complete. root@bb-lp-1806076:~# echo LANG=ru_RU | tee /etc/default/locale LANG=ru_RU root@bb-lp-1806076:~# /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 2171, in <module> (options, args) = parser.parse_args() # type: ignore File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1387, in parse_args stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1427, in _process_args self._process_long_opt(rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1501, in _process_long_opt option.process(opt, value, values, self) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 785, in process self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 807, in take_action parser.print_help() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1647, in print_help file.write(self.format_help()) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 126-133: ordinal not in range(128) root@bb-lp-1806076:~# echo LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 | tee /etc/default/locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 root@bb-lp-1806076:~# /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update root@bb-lp-1806076:~# [Where problems could occur] * Nowhere, really. The fix is setting LC_ALL=C.UFT-8 for u-u --help and it is processed by grep then. [Original Bug Text] The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unattended-upgrades. This problem was most recently seen with package version 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.6, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b3e3265e302351558260f54ae37c7b4c193dfc95 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. 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