pasaffe crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in print_help(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 178: ordinal not in range(128)

[Karma Dorje]

just run the program with any arguments from the command line. for example pasaffe -h.

program should be able to filter and handle such events. imho.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pasaffe 0.16-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36lp922906v201204101802-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Apr 17 00:07:09 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pasaffe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/pasaffe -h
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pasaffe', '-h']
SourcePackage: pasaffe
Title: pasaffe crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in print_help(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 178: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-03 (44 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hrm, I can't reproduce this. Does it happen if you use LANG=C?

[Karma Dorje (taaroa)]

if i use LANG=C the result is the same, but it does not generate a report (apport-crash).

% LANG=C pasaffe -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pasaffe", line 44, in <module>
    pasaffe.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pasaffe/__init__.py", line 58, in main
    options = parse_options()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pasaffe/__init__.py", line 39, in parse_options
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1399, in parse_args
    stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1443, in _process_args
    self._process_short_opts(rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1550, in _process_short_opts
    option.process(opt, value, values, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 788, in process
    self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 810, in take_action
    parser.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1669, in print_help
    file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 178: ordinal not in range(128)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

OK, I've found the cause, and have commited a fix to bzr.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pasaffe - 0.17-0ubuntu1

---------------
pasaffe (0.17-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
   - Add command-line option to specify default database
   - Don't save database specified on command line as default
   - Properly handle entries that have no URL specified (LP: #980608)
   - Fix logging in pasaffe-import scripts so we can debug failures
     (LP: #991143)
   - Correctly strip gpass database padding (LP: #991204)
   - Properly handle unicode characters with optparse (LP: #983210)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 03 May 2012 20:37:15 -0400

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

SRU Request:

[Impact]
Cannot view options from the command line with -h if an alternate language is used that contains UTF-8 characters.

[Development Fix]
Quantal has been fixed by updating to version 0.17 that contains the fix for this issue

[Stable Fix]
See attached patch for minimal fix for this issue.

[Test Case]
1- Launch Pasaffe from the command line with "LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 pasaffe" and see if help is displayed.

[Regression Potential]
This fix is limited to the command line. Attempting to fix this all through the application using the same technique yielded some UTF-8 character errors while the application was in use.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello karma, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pasaffe into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Karma Dorje (taaroa)]

% pasaffe -test0123
Usage: pasaffe [options]

pasaffe: error: no such option: -t

% LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 pasaffe -h
Usage: pasaffe [options]

Options:
  --version show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose Afficher les messages de déboguage (-vv les affiche
                        également pour pasaffe_lib)
  -f FILE, --file=FILE use database FILE
  -s, --set-default set database as default

% pasaffe --version
pasaffe 0.17

resolved fixed ☺

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pasaffe - 0.16-0ubuntu1.1

---------------
pasaffe (0.16-0ubuntu1.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/lp980608.patch: Don't print an error if trying to open a
    URL when none is set in an entry. (LP: #980608)
  * debian/patches/lp991143.patch: add option to turn on debugging when
    using the pasaffe-import-* scripts. (LP: #991143)
  * debian/patches/lp991204.patch: properly strip gpass database padding.
    (LP: #991204)
  * debian/patches/lp983210.patch: Properly handle unicode chars with
    optparse. (LP: #983210)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 03 May 2012 20:13:13 -0400