apport-cli crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in ui_present_report_details()

[Volodymyr Kolesnykov]

Binary package hint: apport

1. lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

2. apt-cache policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.2
  Candidate: 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.9.3-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

3. This is how it happened:

# apport-cli

*** php5 closed unexpectedly on 2010-05-10 at 04:40:01.

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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 446, in run_argv
    return self.run_crashes()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 147, in run_crashes
    self.run_crash(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 260, in run_crash
    response = self.ui_present_report_details()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 213, in ui_present_report_details
    details += ' ' + line + '\n'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 73: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
ApportLog:
 apport (pid 13511) Mon May 10 08:50:02 2010: called for pid 13504, signal 11
 apport (pid 13511) Mon May 10 08:50:02 2010: executable: /usr/bin/php5 (command line "/usr/bin/php5 -f /var/www/extreme_production/current/public/wp-content/plugins/extreme-membership/cron/pmta_reports.php")
 apport (pid 13511) Mon May 10 08:50:02 2010: this executable already crashed 2 times, ignoring
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 600:33:33:808266:2010-05-09 23:21:55.000000000 -0400:2010-05-09 23:50:02.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_php5.33.crash
 600:0:0:11283696:2010-05-09 02:48:59.000000000 -0400:2010-05-09 02:52:46.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_php5-cgi.0.crash
 600:0:0:13045:2010-05-10 09:31:04.000000000 -0400:2010-05-10 09:31:21.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-cli.0.crash
 600:0:0:803561:2010-05-10 09:31:04.000000000 -0400:2010-05-10 09:31:05.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_php5.0.crash
Date: Mon May 10 09:31:05 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-cli
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: backupdriver
Package: apport 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-cli
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-server
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-cli']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in ui_present_report_details()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-server x86_64
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