command-not-found crashes

[Andreas Jurreit]

Binary package hint: command-not-found

Please include the following information with the report:
unsupported locale setting
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 19, in <module>
    parser = OptionParser(version = __version__, usage=_("%prog [options] <command-name>"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 584, in lgettext
    return ldgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 556, in ldgettext
    return t.lgettext(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 366, in lgettext
    return tmsg.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 514, in getpreferredencoding
    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: unsupported locale setting
Python version: 2.5.2 final 0

[Kai Kunschke (kk-altf4)]

same problem here. solved it by setting all variables containing "de_DE@euro" to "de_DE.UTF8"

[hellekin (hellekin)]

root@now:~# hot now.cepheide.org
Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found
Please include the following information with the report:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 52: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 22, in <module>
    help=_("use this path to locate data fields"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 584, in lgettext
    return ldgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 556, in ldgettext
    return t.lgettext(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 366, in lgettext
    return tmsg.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 52: ordinal not in range(128)
root@now:~# host now.cepheide.org

[Jeroen van der Vegt (ajvdvegt)]

I got the same stacktrace after setting my LANG to nl_NL instead of nl_NL.UTF8 to work around this bug: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=900387.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This was fixed a little while back by adding a guard around all gettext calls:

command-not-found (0.2.22ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Zygmunt Krynicki ]
  * Fixed some locale issues and enchanced error reporting

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * scan.data:
    - updated to current intrepid

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:24:21 +0200