aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid continuation byte while trying to report a bug

[Thomas A. F. Thorne]

I was trying to report a problem that caused my unity session to restart. When I tried to submit the report a new error occured and I was taken to Bug #1022993 where I posted:
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I did not have to do an upgrade and reboot to hit this. It seems that my unity session crashed out and took me back the login prompt (so almost a restart). After that I did a ls -l on /var/crash to see if there was a new report. There was so I went to the launcher things and searched for 'up' which gave me a link to Software Updater, as I wanted. I started the updater so that it would see the crash report and start the bug report filing. It spotted the changes, opened a second window from which I could report the bug. I left that window alone while I waited for the main Software Updater window to finish checking for updates. While that was going I opened Chrome and let it restore its session so that I would be ready when a bug window opened. Once Chrome was sorted and all the updates were found I clicked send bug report, which then seemed to fail and then took me to this bug.
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As the first bug happened about 3 years ago I wanted to submit updated apport-collect style details to it. When I tried to do that it said that I could not do so as I did not own the bug and should make a new one. So here is the new one that I will mark as a duplicate of Bug #1022993 in a bit.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.8
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-040100rc8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jul 23 14:00:47 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-12 (132 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)