update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _convert_struct(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 100: ordinal not in range(128)

[An3a]

Binary package hint: update-manager

i don't understand why crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.146.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 17 00:18:01 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _convert_struct(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 100: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-16 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I'm attaching a possible fix for this bug. If the string can not be converted normally, because it's not unicode, decode it it.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Pushed branch to lp:~juliank/aptdaemon/ubuntu-natty

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package aptdaemon - 0.41+bzr614-0ubuntu2

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aptdaemon (0.41+bzr614-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_fix_unicode_in_convert_struct.patch:
    - Decode non-unicode strings in _convert_struct (LP: #736507)
  * debian/patches/03_do_not_close_invalid_fd.patch:
    - Do not close invalid streams (LP: #741370)
 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:02:21 +0200