An internal system error has occured

[Jean.c.h]

Binary package hint: packagekit-gnome

Just installed Packagekit on Karmic 9.10 and ran Software Update and received the above error.

Details for the error were:

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1549: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1960, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1957, in main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1919, in run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 632, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 533, in dispatch_command
    self.get_update_detail(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 733, in get_update_detail
    updated)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 235, in update_detail
    print >> sys.stdout, "updatedetail\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s" $ (package_id, updates, obsoletes, vendor_url, bugzilla_url, cve_url, restart, update_text, changelog, state, issued, updated)

[Antono Vasiljev (antono)]

Have the same bug.

 Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 280: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1966, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1963, in main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1925, in run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 632, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 533, in dispatch_command
    self.get_update_detail(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 735, in get_update_detail
    updated)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 235, in update_detail
    print >> sys.stdout, "updatedetail\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s" $ (package_id, updates, obsoletes, vendor_url, bugzilla_url, cve_url, restart, update_text, changelog, state, issued, updated)