Ubuntu
apport package

  1. Bug #994921
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 994921

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 994921] Re: 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/app.crash' (and even more so, 'apport-cli -c /var/crash/app.crash') should still allow manual bug filing in stable releases

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:31:35PM -0000, drink wrote:
> my bug was marked as a duplicate of this bug so I came here to report my
> update.

> I can not now launch ubuntu-bug AT ALL.

> drink@alexander:~$ ubuntu-bug update-manager
<snip>
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 244, in _customized_package_suffix
> mod = packaging.get_modified_files(package)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 256, in get_modified_files
> s = os.stat('/' + words[-1].decode('UTF-8'))
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xed' in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)

This points to corruption in the md5sums file for the package. You should
try running 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall update-manager' to see if that
fixes the problem.

This error is unrelated to the present bug report.