[Bug 1025818] [NEW] germinate crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _parse_package(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

[Steve Langasek]

Public bug reported:

The python3 version of germinate fails with a Unicode error when invoked
on the livefs buildd for daily-preinstall image generation.  It appears
this is because it's running in a C locale.  Reproducible with this
commandline:

LANG=C germinate --no-rdepends --no-installer -S
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/ -m
http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ -d quantal -s ubuntu.quantal -c
main -a armhf

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: germinate 2.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
Date: Tue Jul 17 11:22:43 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/germinate
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/germinate --no-rdepends --no-installer -S http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/ -m http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ -d quantal -s ubuntu.quantal -c main -a armhf
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/germinate', '--no-rdepends', '--no-installer', '-S', 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/', '-m', 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/', '-d', 'quantal', '-s', 'ubuntu.quantal', '-c', 'main', '-a', 'armhf']
SourcePackage: germinate
Title: germinate crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _parse_package(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (36 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare src sudo

** Affects: germinate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-crash quantal running-unity

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Title:
  germinate crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _parse_package(): 'ascii'
  codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “germinate” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The python3 version of germinate fails with a Unicode error when
  invoked on the livefs buildd for daily-preinstall image generation.
  It appears this is because it's running in a C locale.  Reproducible
  with this commandline:

  LANG=C germinate --no-rdepends --no-installer -S
  http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/ -m
  http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ -d quantal -s ubuntu.quantal -c
  main -a armhf

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: germinate 2.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
  CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
  Date: Tue Jul 17 11:22:43 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/germinate
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/germinate --no-rdepends --no-installer -S http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/ -m http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ -d quantal -s ubuntu.quantal -c main -a armhf
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/germinate', '--no-rdepends', '--no-installer', '-S', 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/', '-m', 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/', '-d', 'quantal', '-s', 'ubuntu.quantal', '-c', 'main', '-a', 'armhf']
  SourcePackage: germinate
  Title: germinate crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _parse_package(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (36 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare src sudo

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