software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

If i want to add a new software source the app crash.

hello Bartmann

here I have the same problem with natty daily cd (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu.. )
I have some spare hard disk just for testing
so I rsync the iso images (x86 and AMD64) 3/5 times every week and try a new installation

on natty i386 updated i've this issue when i click on "add" button into the third parties repo tab of synaptic

Same problem here,

trying to add a repo will cause the crash

As a workaround you can comment out the lines 61,62,63 in the file /usr/share/pyshared/softwareproperties/gtk/DialogAdd.py

It works then.

Hi,

Fine it works now.
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As a workaround you can comment out the lines 61,62,63 in the file
/usr/share/pyshared/softwareproperties/gtk/DialogAdd.py

It works then.

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in__init__():
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Crash right after login. Therefore - no more information to give. :-)

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.80.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-4.31-generic 2.6.38-rc5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-4-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Feb 19 02:26:31 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 58720385
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_AT:de:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_AT.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '58720385']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in__init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
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I uploaded a possible fix to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive/unstable). To add it, you can add manually this line to your sources.list :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/unstable/ubuntu natty main
Hopefully, you should be able to add PPA easier after the upgrade :)

Julien, this seems to work well.

Thanks for this! I can replicate the crash here, the problem is the mixing of unicode and str here. As set_label() eventually expects an UTF-8 str, I think it's cleaner to explicitly encode the Unicode as UTF-8:

- "repository, for example '%s'.") % ("<i>%s</i>" % example)
+ "repository, for example '%s'.") % ("<i>%s</i>" % example).encode('UTF-8')

I committed this to bzr now.

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.80.3

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software-properties (0.80.3) natty; urgency=low

  * softwareproperties/gtk/DialogAdd.py: Fix UnicodeDecodeError in "Add
    source" dialog. (LP: #721778)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:13:46 +0100