[Bug 1069086] Re: Software sources crasch with UnicodeDecodeError on start

[anna van puijenbroek]

purging davmail did the trick
thanks

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Title:
  Software sources crasch with UnicodeDecodeError on start

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

Bug description:
  The software sources (software-properties-gtk) crasch on startup when
  DavMail 4.1.0-2042-1 is installed
  (http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files/davmail/4.1.0/).

  When I uninstalled davmail all is fine, reinstalling will crasch
  Software Sources again with the same error.

  The following is the console output:
  gpg: /tmp/tmpjca54y/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 163, in packages_for_modalias
      cache_map = packages_for_modalias.cache_maps[apt_cache_hash]
  KeyError: 5119329

  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 103, in <module>
      app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 178, in __init__
      self.init_drivers()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 1097, in init_drivers
      self.devices = detect.system_device_drivers()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 416, in system_device_drivers
      for pkg, pkginfo in system_driver_packages(apt_cache).items():
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 320, in system_driver_packages
      for p in packages_for_modalias(apt_cache, alias):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 165, in packages_for_modalias
      cache_map = _apt_cache_modalias_map(apt_cache)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 130, in _apt_cache_modalias_map
      m = package.candidate.record['Modaliases']
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 429, in record
      return Record(self._records.record)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xeb in position 114: invalid continuation byte

  
  The header stuff in the davmail DEB contains (check the Maintainer's name, I'm guessing that's what may be causing the problem):

  davmail_4.1.0-2042-1_all.deb:
   new debian package, version 2.0.
   size 5054942 bytes: control archive=1784 bytes.
      1510 bytes,    26 lines      control              
      1763 bytes,    24 lines      md5sums              
   Package: davmail
   Version: 4.1.0-2042-1
   Section: mail
   Priority: extra
   Architecture: all
   Depends: openjdk-7-jre|openjdk-6-jre|sun-java6-jre,libswt-gtk-3-java|libswt-gtk-3.6-java|libswt-gtk-3.5-java|libswt-gtk-3.4-java
   Installed-Size: 5410
   Maintainer: Micka<EB>l Guessant <mguessan at free.fr>
   Description: DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway
    Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange
    gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or
    Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through
    Outlook Web Access.
    DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book and user personal
    contacts to allow recipient address completion in mail compose window and full calendar
    support with attendees free/busy display.
    The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary
    Exchange. This means LDAP for global address book, SMTP to send messages, IMAP to browse
    messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only, Caldav for
    calendar support and Carddav for personal contacts sync.
    Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
    DavMail gateway is implemented in java and should run on any platform. Releases are tested
    on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac OSX. Tested successfully with the Iphone
    (gateway running on a server).
    .
    http://davmail.sourceforge.net (....)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Oct 20 15:56:03 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120417)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (1 days ago)

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