Comment 4 for bug 133937
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| Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy) wrote Re: [Bug 133937] Re: software-properties-kde crashed with error " 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 27-28" | #4 |
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 6:02:21 pm dAniel hAhler wrote:
> So the error is caused by the (encoding/content of the) keys, right?
> Is there another bug report for "the same old problem" (which you've
> mentioned)?
>
> Can you fix it by removing (some) keys, e.g. using "apt-key del" (after
> backing up /etc/apt/trust*).
>
> >From the traceback it looks like it expects the data to be UTF-8
>
> encoded, but it's not.
>
> Is this with Gutsy or Feisty?
>
> ** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
Yes, the problem can be resolved by removing the offending keys. However, the
problem really lies with character encoding not being treated properly. This
is in Feisty's version of adept... I have not tested Gutsy to determine if
the problem was resolved there, but I had heard that it was.
--
Jeremy Wilkins