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apport-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_modified_files(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xed' in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #1044014 reported by Roman Brodylo
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: apport-gtk 2.5.1-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 30 20:35:54 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcCwd: /home/roman
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk']
SourcePackage: apport
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Roman Brodylo (roman-brodylo) wrote :
Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Martin Pitt (pitti)
information type: Private → Public
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

For the record, you all use a non-UTF8 locale for $LANG, either en_US or C. Please don't do that, that's just plain wrong and will lead to problems displaying error messages, non-ASCII file names, etc. all along.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed in trunk r2604.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.9.1-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.9.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - launchpad.py: Add support for filing bugs as private. Document this in
      doc/crashdb-conf.txt. (LP: #1144647)
    - Fix crash in error() and warning() if there is no sys.stderr.
      (LP: #1012445)
    - Fix Turkish translation to add missing keyboard accelerator.
      (LP: #648750)
    - fileutils.py, find_package_desktopfile(): Restrict to autostart and
      application .desktop files. (LP: #1147528)
    - apt/dpkg get_modified_files(): Fix crash when encountering non-ASCII
      file names in an ASCII locale. (LP: #1044014)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes necessary).
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:04:35 +0100

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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