software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 99-100: ordinal not in range(128)

[dmiranda]

software properties crashed when using synaptic

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 2 17:35:00 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 54525989
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '54525989']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 99-100: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-31 (1 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

marking high based on number of duplicates and people affected.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This looks different than bug 846044 but might not be.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I tried to reproduce this with the latest oneiric image. I tried the following:
$ LANGUAGE=pt_BR software-properties-gtk
$ sudo LANGUAGE=pt_BR synaptic - and then I clicked on Configuracao/Repositorios

Both times I got what looks like a normal translated window but I was not able to reproduce the crash.
I assume this is releated to your /etc/apt/sources.list, could you please attach it?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I can reproduce this now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.81.10

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software-properties (0.81.10) oneiric; urgency=low

  * softwareproperties/dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py, tests/test_dbus.py:
    - fix crash when there are unicode comments in the sources.list
      file (LP: #820028). Dbus always sends us a dbus.String which is
      type unicode, but python-apt expects utf8 encoded str
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:55:45 +0200

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

included in oneiric, so will automatically make it into precise when it opens.