Ubuntu
packagekit package

update-manager outputs an error message

Bug #426557 reported by Ulsak on 2009-09-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #438076: APT: Unicode Error in changelog. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	packagekit (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

* release: karmic-alpha 5
* update-manager 1:0.124.11
* I was expecting it to upgrade all packages
* But I got the message ( enclosed below)and the update-manager icon didn't disappear from the panel

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1948, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1945, in main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1907, in run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 636, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 537, in dispatch_command
    self.get_update_detail(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 753, in get_update_detail
    updated)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 242, in update_detail
    changelog, state, issued, updated))

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e56e0c0e4923c25721a9e222092af7d3
CheckboxSystem: be1bc7d1d8df790f688eb40b83013585
Date: Wed Sep 9 02:12:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: yelp 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

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Ulsak (jari-saarelainen) wrote on 2009-09-09:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (38.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (755 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2009-09-15

affects:

update-manager (Ubuntu) → packagekit (Ubuntu)

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2009-09-22:

Which version of packagekit are you using?

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Kirill Afonshin (pmvd) wrote on 2009-10-01:

The same issue for me:
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1948, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1945, in main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1907, in run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 636, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 537, in dispatch_command
    self.get_update_detail(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 753, in get_update_detail
    updated)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 242, in update_detail
    changelog, state, issued, updated))