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software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in on_add_to_launcher(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #837698 reported by Franco M.Labate on 2011-08-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #835337: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in on_add_to_launcher(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

adding application to the launch bar

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 30 23:11:33 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110821)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
SoftwareCenterLog:
2011-08-30 23:09:47,682 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 15 21
2011-08-30 23:09:50,247 - softwarecenter.fixme - WARNING - logs to the root logger: '('/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py', 175, 'open')'
2011-08-30 23:09:50,247 - root - WARNING - failed to add sca db Couldn't stat '/home/labatef/.cache/software-center/software-center-agent.db' (File o directory non esistente)
2011-08-30 23:09:51,435 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-08-30 23:09:59,283 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 1
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in on_add_to_launcher(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-30 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Franco M.Labate (f-labate) wrote on 2011-08-30:

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-09-01: This bug is a duplicate

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 #835337, 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.