** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ When someone adds a PPA with a description that contains non-ascii letters,
he later on gets apport dialogs about aptd crashes:
+
+ Title: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't
+ decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
+
+
+ [Test Case]
+ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ts.sch.gr
+ $ sudo apt-get update
+ # Just ensure that there's at least one update coming from that PPA.
+ # E.g. install the numlockx package from Precise, there's then an
+ # update in that PPA:
+ $ sudo apt-get install numlockx=1.2-2
+ $ sudo apt-get update
+ $ update-manager
+
+ No need to update anything, it's enough to select numlockx in the update
manager so that the PPA description is pulled.
+ Then wait approximately 30 seconds for apport to display the crash dialog.
+ Or, ls /var/crash/*apt*
+
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+ There are lots of dbus.String() calls in aptdaemon that might trigger similar
errors, but this case should be OK now, both for python2 and python3.
+
+
+ [Original bug report]
No noticable problems - this message came up during boot
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Annotation: Search failed
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 10 07:45:48 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode
byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
TransactionKwargs: {'filters': [u'unknown']}
TransactionLocale: en_GB.UTF-8
TransactionOutput:
-
+
TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionRole: role-pk-query
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-26 (44 days ago)
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