apport-cli crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in ui_present_report_details()

[Marco Rodrigues]

Binary package hint: apport

When trying to report mplayer crash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashReports:
 600:1000:1000:9352:2009-09-14 22:15:58.177935000 +0100:2009-09-14 22:16:08.113951070 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-cli.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:406999:2009-09-08 22:48:14.004723000 +0100:2009-09-12 22:33:02.286088103 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_update-notifier.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:7698620:2009-09-14 21:39:57.349944000 +0100:2009-09-14 21:39:58.349944000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_audacious2.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:55480:2009-09-14 00:01:47.004335000 +0100:2009-09-14 00:01:48.004335000 +0100:/var/crash/_bin_bash.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:10919474:2009-09-14 22:15:41.481944000 +0100:2009-09-14 22:15:42.481944000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_mplayer.1000.crash
Date: Mon Sep 14 22:15:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 karmic
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-cli
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apport 1.9-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-cli -c /var/crash/_usr_bin_mplayer.1000.crash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-cli', '-c', '/var/crash/_usr_bin_mplayer.1000.crash']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in ui_present_report_details()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

$ apport-cli -c /var/crash/_usr_bin_mplayer.1000.crash
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 393, in <module>
    if not app.run_argv():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 445, in run_argv
    self.run_crash(self.options.crash_file, False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 264, in run_crash
    response = self.ui_present_report_details()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 209, in ui_present_report_details
    details += ' ' + self.report[key] + '\n'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)

[ozbird (ozbird)]

Much the same problem here. I tried to report a bug with debian-installer, and received the following (running as root):

# ubuntu-bug debian-installer

*** Collecting problem information

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
....
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 403, in <module>
    if not app.run_argv():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 435, in run_argv
    return self.run_report_bug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 370, in run_report_bug
    response = self.ui_present_report_details()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 215, in ui_present_report_details
    details += ' ' + _('(binary data)') + '\n'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 57602: ordinal not in range(128)