[Bug 815642] Re: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

[Kate Stewart]

Not sure if this is still a problem or not.  Can someone confirm its
still being seen with beta2


** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in
  init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3:
  ordinal not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
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  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-6.7-generic 3.0.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-6-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jul 25 09:49:36 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110705)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk --open-tab 2
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '--open-tab', '2']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-23 (1 days ago)
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