I'm attaching a possible fix for this bug. If the string can not be converted normally, because it's not unicode, decode it it.
** Patch added: "aptdaemon_0.41+bzr614-0ubuntu2.diff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/736507/+attachment/1992634/+files/aptdaemon_0.41%2Bbzr614-0ubuntu2.diff ** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => aptdaemon (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: aptdaemon (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736507 Title: update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _convert_struct(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 100: ordinal not in range(128) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
