software-center crashed with TypeError in decode(): expected string or buffer

[Bilal Shahid]

crash

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 19 22:27:35 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110719)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in decode(): expected string or buffer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-19 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 812923, so it 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.

Many thanks!