smart crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in main()

[Nemanja Misic]

unknown error (nepoznata greska)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 28 16:00:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/smart
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: smartpm-core 0.52-2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart info --urls
ProcCwd: /home/msi
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sr_RS:sr
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sr_RS.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/sh
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/smart', 'info', '--urls']
SourcePackage: smart
Title: smart crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in main()
Uname: Linux msi-laptop 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[riche (rpcpyz)]

Everyhing is fine.
Happy Ubuntu user :)

Ubuntu user

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[GordonSchumacher (eleccham)]

Also occurs in a Jaunty alpha6 fresh install - launching KPackage appears to have triggered it.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Please try:

sudo smart update
sudo smart search

The last command will list all packages in all repositories. You can switch to another terminal while it runs: the goal is to see if it will crash with the unicode error before it finishes.

[Slobodan Simić (slsimic)]

I have same problems as the reporter in my 9.04 jaunty beta.
Those two commands in upper post returned no errors in console, but I did't use smart package manager when this error occurs... I had crash while running KPackage as a frontend.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Interesting, I didn't know kpackage used smart.

Anyway, I get the backtrace in jaunty when running smart search in the pt_BR locale, and also the "C" locale.

Apparently I don't get it when *not* redirecting output elsewhere, or it's just too fast in my screen and I don't see it. It looks like it has something to do with the clustalx package:
# smart search
(...)
clustalw-mpi - MPI-distributed global sequence alignment with ClustalW
clustalx - Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 195, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 168, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/smart/commands/query.py", line 312, in main
    output.showPackage(pkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/smart/commands/query.py", line 504, in showPackage
    print "-", info.getSummary(),
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

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[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I was installing simplyhtml while I was using that KDE, with the result being, the technical-difficulty.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I just started up XFCE with the result being, this crash did soon follow.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I've recently installed some smart related software packages, which might have stressed my configuration.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

This running of KDE is stressing my system, is the Swap-File with 1Gigabyte of RAM enough.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I was starting to run kpackage which made possible a series of crashes.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I have recently used some package managers, could this have something to do with this difficulty?

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

'Twas an attempt to install a Java-Based Desktop-Environment which lead to this difficulty, from the downloaded debs. This process did involve the use of kpackage.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

This does happen with the KDE in those Daytime-hours when I desire to listen to the audio part of multimedia, otherwise all sound-experience with the exception of Beep would be gone. That program called Beep does instruct the internal speaker to make the sound of beep, which is the sound which does work in those other Desktop-Environments.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I'm back, something about my personal-use home-office might be disagreeing with this program.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I did open kpackage while I was using KDE4, which soon afterward generated this report of a crash.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I did press the update icon with kpackage which resulted in this error occurring, with this error having triggered another error-message.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

That kpackage program was recently closed, with the error message being the result.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

This KDE4 is doing its start-up time, bugging-out so after this smoke does clear, the listening to audio and enjoyment of video will become again possible.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

This is part of my starting KDE with my receiving an error message as first notification of a program, having been started. After the filing of these error-reports, I'll find some items of greater interest to me, to do.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

The starting up of KDE4 is having an unusually small number of bug-reports today, I just doubt if this will be the only-one.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

Today this is my first bug-report of the day, after this the series will follow so its not coffee-break time yet for me.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I sensed this bug might affect me today, there's that group which will accuse me of using some paranormal-power to perceive this. The morning coffee was had before starting the computer, so I could drop the load before doing these reports. This is one of those routine difficulties in my home office, for a personal-use system.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

This is just part of my starting, that KDE when that smart does crash.

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

I've recently built some packages for this fork, needed in order for the machine to run at an acceptable speed. Those were taken from the accepted Ubuntu source files.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has died long ago; no more supported