aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_status_details(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

[jhellen]

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

I was using the update-manager to get the latest updates installed when it gave me an error message about this aptdaemon.

Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

aptdaemon:
  Installed: 0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 2 21:33:16 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd
ProcEnviron:

PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_status_details(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #707490, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.