[Bug 839005] Re: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in exists(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

[Thierry Mallard]

I suspect this is the same bug for me. I just can't launch software-
properties-gtk :

lilo at lilo-Vostro-3360:~$ software-properties-gtk 
gpg: /tmp/tmpnd5xe1/trustdb.gpg: base de confiance créée
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 162, in packages_for_modalias
    cache_map = packages_for_modalias.cache_maps[apt_cache_hash]
KeyError: 4252617

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 415, in system_device_drivers
    for pkg, pkginfo in system_driver_packages(apt_cache).items():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 319, in system_driver_packages
    for p in packages_for_modalias(apt_cache, alias):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 164, in packages_for_modalias
    cache_map = _apt_cache_modalias_map(apt_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 129, 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

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in exists():
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 13: ordinal
  not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  install in synaptic ubuntugames ppa, add key public bug  :

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  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep  1 20:48:04 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110830)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 62914689
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '62914689']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in exists(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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