Tracebacks when upgrading from Karmic

[Martin Albisetti]

Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 6, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 116, in main
    generate_menu_cache(options.desktop_dir, options.cache_dir)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 71, in generate_menu_cache
    menu.createMenuCache(cache_dir)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/CoreMenu.py", line 89, in createMenuCache
    menu = xdg.Menu.parse(mpath)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
    __parse(doc, filename, tmp["Root"])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 545, in __parse
    __parseMenu(child, filename, parent)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 699, in __parseMenu
    __parse(child, filename, m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 545, in __parse
    __parseMenu(child, filename, parent)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 699, in _
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 701, in __parseMenu
    parent.addSubmenu(m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 176, in addSubmenu
    if submenu == newmenu:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 95, in __eq__
    if self.Name == str(other):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8: ordinal not in range(128)
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al not in range(128)
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8: ordinal not in range(128)
    __parse(child, filename, m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 545, in __parse
    __parseMenu(child, filename, parent)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 701, in __parseMenu
    parent.addSubmenu(m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 176, in addSubmenu
    if submenu == newmenu:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 95, in __eq__
    if self.Name == str(other):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 699, in __parseMenu
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
    __parse(doc, filename, tmp["Root"])
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/CoreMenu.py", line 89, in createMenuCache
    menu = xdg.Menu.parse(mpath)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 71, in generate_menu_cache
    menu.createMenuCache(cache_dir)
    main()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 116, in main
    generate_menu_cache(options.desktop_dir, options.cache_dir)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 6, in <module>
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  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 701, in __parseMenu
    parent.addSubmenu(m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 176, in addSubmenu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 6, in <module>
_menu_cache
MenuCache
    parent.addSubmenu(m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 176, in addSubmenu
    if submenu == newmenu:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 95, in __eq__
    if self.Name == str(other):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8: ordinal not in range(128)
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 12 12:33:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Package: gnome-app-install (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-app-install
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686

[WaywardGeek (waywardgeek)]

This is caused by some UTF-8 data somehow getting into the menu data. Default encoding is "ascii" in python, and when python tries to manipulate the UTF-8 menu string, it crashes. The program that is failing is /usr/sbin/update-app-install, in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py. If I add at the top of this file:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')

Then the update-app-install program seems to work. When I run gnome-app-install, everything works until I hit the "Apply" button, where it crashes with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/AppInstallApp.py", line 1040, in on_button_ok_clicked
    self.applyChanges(to_add, to_rm)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/AppInstallApp.py", line 1017, in applyChanges
    ret = self.install_backend.commit(pkgs_add, pkgs_rm)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/backend/InstallBackendAptdaemon.py", line 23, in commit
    exit_handler=self._on_exit)
TypeError: commit_packages() got an unexpected keyword argument 'exit_handler'

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.