update-app-install crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __eq__()

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Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 6, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 116, in main
    generate_menu_cache(options.desktop_dir, options.cache_dir)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/update.py", line 71, in generate_menu_cache
    menu.createMenuCache(cache_dir)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/CoreMenu.py", line 89, in createMenuCache
    menu = xdg.Menu.parse(mpath)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
    __parse(doc, filename, tmp["Root"])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 545, in __parse
    __parseMenu(child, filename, parent)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 699, in __parseMenu
    __parse(child, filename, m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 545, in __parse
    __parseMenu(child, filename, parent)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 701, in __parseMenu
    parent.addSubmenu(m)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 176, in addSubmenu
    if submenu == newmenu:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xdg/Menu.py", line 95, in __eq__
    if self.Name == str(other):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-10: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 25 09:55:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gnome-app-install/update-app-install
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-app-install 0.5.60.1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-app-install
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-app-install']
SourcePackage: gnome-app-install
Title: update-app-install crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __eq__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

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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 #527425, 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.