aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 1: invalid start byte

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

What language do you use?

English

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Sebastian Heinlein <
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> Title:
> aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8'
> codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 1: invalid start byte
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> Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
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> Bug description:
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> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: aptdaemon 0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu5
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
> Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Oct 2 06:17:45 2012
> ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110427.1)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/sbin/aptd
> ProcEnviron:
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> PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
> SourcePackage: aptdaemon
> Title: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item():
> 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 1: invalid start byte
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-22 (9 days ago)
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e.u.c report on https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/c1798b122284005da95af160f34062f4516a9e9f

trusty example
https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/d153587c-b115-11e3-bf1a-fa163e707a72

"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/progress.py", line 185, in fetch
    self._emit_acquire_item(item)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/progress.py", line 309, in _emit_acquire_item
    elif item.owner.mode:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 3-4: invalid continuation byte"

LANG=C.UTF-8

The same in Ubuntu 14.10: aptd crashes on DE(unity) start.

I had this same issue. I had at some point added Persian keyboard to my system. after going to "Language Support" -> "Install / Remove Languages..." and selecting "Persian" to install, the problem resolved. I don't remember whether I had added Persian keyboard during installation of Ubuntu or later on (I installed my system few days ago).

Happened to me in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04.

Happened to me in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04.

Same here upgraded today

This crash appears to be caused by a bug in apt, see Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781858

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

@ Vitaliy

Please, assign yourself to bugs only before starting to work on them.

Somewhere during, before or after my current xorg or unity problems I am hitting this bug too according to apport.

Having read the background post from ~chris-bainbridge I can see that this will be a random crash. Unless there is any further information I can supply that will be of help, I will not add further comments or bugs in relation to this item.

I hit this today while using apt 1.0.1ubuntu2 for amd64 compiled on Aug 1 2015 19:20:48. The Debian bug says that this has been fixed in apt/1.1~exp4 and apt/1.0.9.8. Any chance of these getting pulled into Ubuntu LTS to avoid this ongoing crash?
Is there anything I could try and do on my system to avoid hitting this?

Tripped over this again today.

On 18/04/2016 15:22, Thomas A. F. Thorne wrote:
> Tripped over this again today.
>
What should I have to try to do from my side?
I know nothing about computer programs.

Eddie