well lets see here i found a rather easy fix but i cannot [read that not willing to] duplicate error so outside verification would be nice on fix:
my situation roomate had kubuntu edgy installed wanted rid of it and wanted ubuntu [gnome] installed. used the package remove page as per: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnomeedgy proceded to install ubuntu-desktop etc got exactly this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 69, in ? generate_cache() File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 49, in generate_cache menu.createMenuCache(options.cache_dir) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/CoreMenu.py", line 28, in createMenuCache menu = xdg.Menu.parse(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(self.menudir, "applications.menu"))) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(tmp["Root"]) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 862, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated menuentries = rule.do(tmp["cache"].getMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs), rule.Type, 1) File "<string>", line 6, in do UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) dpkg: error processing gnome-app-install (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop: ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-app-install; however: Package gnome-app-install is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured so i figured i'd get smart and remove python2.4 and then redo ubuntu desktop - no love ;_; then i realized python xdg ZOMG PYTHON-XDG reinstalled that and its wonderfully fixed ;) -- Upgrade issue from Dapper to Edgy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
