[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]

Hit this again just now.  Apparently it is quite repeatable on my system
at current.  I was typing in a terminal when the GUI locked up.  After
the reboot I fired up Software Updater and it went through a little
report cycle that brought me here.

I can see the following crash files 
/var/crash$ ll
total 112620
drwxrwsrwt  2 root         whoopsie     4096 Sep  9 13:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root         root         4096 Jul 13 16:08 ../
-rw-rw----  1 root         whoopsie        0 Sep  9 13:51 .lock
-rw-r-----  1 thomasthorne whoopsie 28933552 Sep  9 13:52 _usr_bin_compiz.1000.crash
-rw-r-----  1 thomasthorne whoopsie  9080665 Sep  9 13:52 _usr_bin_pidgin.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 thomasthorne whoopsie        0 Sep  2 10:12 _usr_bin_pidgin.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie     whoopsie        0 Sep  2 10:12 _usr_bin_pidgin.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 thomasthorne whoopsie  4810182 Sep  9 13:52 _usr_bin_python2.7.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 thomasthorne whoopsie        0 Sep  7 16:50 _usr_bin_python2.7.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie     whoopsie        0 Sep  7 16:50 _usr_bin_python2.7.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 thomasthorne whoopsie 70072908 Sep  9 13:53 _usr_bin_skype.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 thomasthorne whoopsie        0 Sep  7 17:03 _usr_bin_skype.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie     whoopsie        0 Sep  7 17:03 _usr_bin_skype.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 thomasthorne whoopsie  2302186 Sep  9 13:51 _usr_lib_unity-settings-daemon_unity-settings-daemon.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 thomasthorne whoopsie        0 Sep  7 17:03 _usr_lib_unity-settings-daemon_unity-settings-daemon.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie     whoopsie        0 Sep  7 17:03 _usr_lib_unity-settings-daemon_unity-settings-daemon.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 root         whoopsie   102800 Sep  8 13:40 _usr_sbin_aptd.0.crash
-rw-r--r--  1 root         whoopsie        0 Sep  8 13:40 _usr_sbin_aptd.0.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie     whoopsie        0 Sep  8 13:40 _usr_sbin_aptd.0.uploaded

Looks like a similar set to earlier in the week.

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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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