aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

[Francesco Muriana]

During normal upgrades, this error appeared

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr769-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 11 19:44:55 2012
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
DuplicateOf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926340
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.2)
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_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #926340, 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.