I can reproduce this with: $ mkdir /tmp/äää $ (cd /tmp/äää ; apt-get download 2vcard) $ software-center /tmp/äää/2vcard*.deb
click on "install" and authenticate: 2012-10-08 10:21:14,318 - softwarecenter.backend - ERROR - error in _on_trans_finished 'Error: An unhandled error occured There seems to be a programming error in aptdaemon. This is the software that allows you to install/remove software and to perform other package management related tasks. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1181, in _simulate trans.unauthenticated, trans.high_trust_packages = self.__simulate(trans) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1239, in __simulate deb = self.install_file(trans, simulate=True, **trans.kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 740, in install_file deb = self._check_deb_file(trans, path, force) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1326, in _check_deb_file if not os.path.isfile(path): File "/usr/lib/python3.2/genericpath.py", line 29, in isfile st = os.stat(path) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 5-7: ordinal not in range(128) ' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1043752 Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in call_async(): Don't know which D-Bus type to use to encode type "NoneType" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1043752/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs