backend_helper.py crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in apport_excepthook(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 166: ordinal not in range(128)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
apport (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
SRU test case:
- Modify /usr/bin/
# coding: UTF-8
raise ValueError(u'♥')
- Run software-
- Curent version: You will see the exception from this bug in apport_
- Fixed version: You just see the ValueError in the terminal, and /var/crash/ gets a bug report generated.
REGRESSION POTENTIAL: Negligible. Both this new as well as several already working cases are covered by tests.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 3 15:14:46 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: update-notifier
Title: backend_helper.py crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in apport_
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-03 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
mtime.conffile.
tags: | removed: need-duplicate-check |
affects: | update-notifier (Ubuntu) → apport (Ubuntu) |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Hey Martin, is there any chance you cool at this issue? It got reported 778 times on errors.ubuntu.com so far in July which makes it issue n°19 on Ubuntu at the moment, it would be nice to see if we can get it fixed for the LTS .1