software-center crashed browsing "Newly launched"

Bug #871333 reported by Villodre
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software-center (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Well, I was browsing the Ubuntu Software Center while downloading Adobe Flash plugin when it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 9 17:21:14 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-09 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Villodre (angelvillodre) wrote :
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

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 #870051, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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