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update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #753393 reported by alvadoraemon on 2011-04-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #926340: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

update-manager fails while asking admin pasword for updating. The password dialog remains open.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.147
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 7 12:50:36 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:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-29 (8 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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alvadoraemon (alvadoraemon) wrote on 2011-04-07:

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-04-07: This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #732169, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.