Ubuntu
software-properties package

KDE: do not crash if there are special chars in the comment of newly added sources

Bug #99944 reported by Michel
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Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 608, in on_edit_clicked
    self.set_modified_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 520, in set_modified_sourceslist
    SoftwareProperties.set_modified_sourceslist(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 333, in set_modified_sourceslist
    self.save_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 486, in save_sourceslist
    self.sourceslist.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/sourceslist.py", line 355, in save
    files[source.file].write(source.str())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 95: ordinal not in range(128)

Revision history for this message
Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Could you please attach your /etc/apt/sources.list

What did you want to change in the edit dialog?

Changed in software-properties:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Michel (michel-morte) wrote : Re: [Bug 99944] Re: repository manager crash

Sorry, I forgot it.
This was the first and the last time this error appear.
Repository manager crashed when I pasted a comment from a web page in a
third party source software (cinelerra).
The next time I did not add the comment and all was ok.

2007/4/2, Sebastian Heinlein <email address hidden>:
>
> Could you please attach your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> What did you want to change in the edit dialog?
>
> ** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> repository manager crash
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99944
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> of the bug.
>

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for software-properties (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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