[Bug 846044] Re: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

This is the #2 most frequent recorded error for all Ubuntu users in the
past day, and #4 for the past month.

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message():
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal
  not in range(128)

Status in Aptdaemon:
  Fix Released
Status in Python Dbus:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dbus-python” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptdaemon” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “dbus-python” source package in Oneiric:
  Won't Fix
Status in “aptdaemon” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “dbus-python” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  TEST CASE (for dbus-python):
   1. mkdir /tmp/äää
   2. download google-chrome-stable (or another package that lintian compalins about)
   3. copy deb to /tmp/äää
   4. run software-center /tmp/ää/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb from a terminal
   5. click on "install" and verify that there is a crash in the log that is displayed in the terminal
   6. now install python-dbus from quantal-proposed and restart software-center
   7. verify that the crash is no longer there when repeating step 4

  I've tried to install an program. After clicking on "install" and
  entered password, the software center crashes.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep  9 23:31:38 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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