software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in set_description(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

[Fabio Marconi]

Hello
Trying to install a program, it crash.
Thanks
Fabio

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 8 22:16:44 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in set_description(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I got a similar traceback when I was trying to get more information for an application:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py", line 94, in wrapper
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/softwarepane.py", line 324, in on_application_activated
    vm.display_page(self, SoftwarePane.Pages.DETAILS, self.state, self.display_details_page)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/session/viewmanager.py", line 150, in display_page
    callback(page, view_state)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/panes/softwarepane.py", line 654, in display_details_page
    self.app_details_view.show_app(view_state.application)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 1425, in show_app
    skip_update_addons=(type(self.app)==DebFileApplication))
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 1254, in _update_all
    self._update_app_description(app_details, appname)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py", line 1149, in _update_app_description
    self.desc.set_description(description, appname)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/description.py", line 1121, in set_description
    desc = GObject.markup_escape_text(desc)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

njin@njin-K8NF4G-SATA2:~$ G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=40 --log-file=valgrind.log software-center-gtk3
EM's: 17 15 21
12903
2011-08-09 21:35:18,079 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py', 169, 'open')'
2011-08-09 21:35:18,050 - root - WARNING - failed to add sca db Couldn't stat '/home/njin/.cache/software-center/software-center-agent.db' (File o directory non esistente)
2011-08-09 21:35:46,265 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-08-09 21:36:09,596 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 1
2011-08-09 21:41:19,610 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper
2011-08-09 21:41:19,640 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'ERROR:__main__:exhibits
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/piston_get_scagent_available_apps.py", line 173, in <module>
    piston_reply = scaclient.exhibits(lang=args.lang)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 106, in wrapper
    body = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/piston/scaclient_pristine.py", line 55, in exhibits
    'exhibits/%s/' % (lang))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 243, in _get
    headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 401, in _request
    body = handler.handle(response, body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/failhandlers.py", line 59, in handle
    raise APIError('%s: %s' % (response['status'], response), body)
APIError: 404: {'status': '404', 'content-length': '11312', 'via': '1.1 software-center.ubuntu.com', '-content-encoding': 'gzip', 'vary': 'Cookie,Accept-Encoding', 'server': 'Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)', 'etag': '"2500bc29f759ce6ea41453bc0e17014a"', 'date': 'Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:39:24 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'}
'
2011-08-09 21:47:21,415 - softwarecenter.backend - WARNING - _on_trans_error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/defer/__init__.py", line 474, in _inline_callbacks
    result = gen.send(result)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/core.py", line 1055, in _set_property
    self._set_locale(value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/core.py", line 726, in _set_locale
    (lang, encoding) = locale._parse_localename(locale_str)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 421, in _parse_localename
    code = normalize(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 358, in normalize
    fullname = localename.translate(_ascii_lower_map)
TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

Ucciso

[Matthew McGowan (mmcg069)]

Should be fixed in trunk, this was similar to Bug#823363

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

software-center (4.1.15) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * software-center-gtk3, software-center:
    - fix PYTHONPATH when running from a local repo
    - add "--dummy-backend" option start will start a fake
      aptdaemon in a private dbus for interactive testing of the
      installation/removal
  * softwarecenter/backend/spawn_helper.py:
    - make "--debug-filter softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper"
      more useful
    - ensure that the io source is removed after any pending
      reads are flushed
  * software-center:
    - fix startup with no PYTHONPATH
  * softwarecenter/gmenusearch.py:
    - port to use gir1.2-gmenu-3.0
  * softwarecenter/ui/{gtk,gtk3}/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - updated for gir1.2-gmenu-3.0
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/exhibits.py:
    - show hand cursor if the exhibit has package_names
  * setup.py:
    - fix AUTHORS file merging

  [ Matthew McGowan ]
  * lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appdetails-tweaks:
    - add a pretty frame around the thumbnail in the detailsview.
  * lp:~mmcg069/software-center/bugfix-823233:
    - fix so that markup is actually rendered by the submit_label
      when submitting usefulness (LP: #823233)
  * fix the annoying ascii codec error, #823363 <--
  * add some checks to ensure the exhibits list contains exhibits and
    then some further checks within _render_exhbit_at_cursor to ensure
    the cursor is within the bounds of the exhibits_list

  [ Kiwinote ]
  * data/ui/gtk3/SoftwareCenter.ui,
    softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py:
    - few more tweaks to the about dialog
  * softwarecenter/db/application.py:
    - import version_compare on demand to make deb files work (LP: #824692)
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk/appview.py,
    softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/cellrenderers.py:
    - fix listviews in rtl setups (pango reverses LEFT and RIGHT itself)
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py:
    - fix rtl mode for testing
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - correctly show/hide website button

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:21:25 +0200