software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 29-37: ordinal not in range(128)

[Fedor Dikarev]

root@t34:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
root@t34:~# env LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
  Installed: 4.1.20
  Candidate: 4.1.20
  Version table:
 *** 4.1.20 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 26 12:05:35 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 29-37: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

based on duplicates, marking this high.

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

assigning to foundations team to make sure this is triaged

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

This was actually a bug in aptdaemon, see bug 846044, and I have marked this one a duplicate of that one.

Note from bug 846044 that a fix for this was released on 9/19 with aptdaemon version 0.43+bzr697 and I don't see any dupes since that date, so all seems good and this bug should be fixed now.

Thanks!