add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not in range(128)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-properties (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This error was caused by issuing the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: python-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Fri Oct 28 15:19:53 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
print " %s" % (ppa_info[
UnicodeEncodeE
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
visibility: | private → public |
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 #827355, 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.