[Bug 1022993] Re: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid continuation byte

[Thomas A. F. Thorne]

I had apparently his this twice today.  Are there any further diagnostic
steps that I can take take to assist in identifying the root cause?

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Title:
  aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8'
  codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid continuation byte

Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Bug happened after upgrade and reboot.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: aptdaemon 0.45+bzr846-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-1.1-generic 3.5.0-rc3
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-1-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Jul 10 09:14:54 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/sbin/aptd
  ProcEnviron:

  PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
  SourcePackage: aptdaemon
  Title: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _emit_acquire_item(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid continuation byte
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-05-04 (66 days ago)
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