[Bug 1820163] [NEW] apport cann't save a dump due UnicodeEncodeError

[Oleg Schelicalnov]

Public bug reported:

I've installed russian locale and have a Desktop folder named "Рабочий
стол"

When I launch application from Desktop and it crash I got in
/var/log/apport.log

ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: called for pid 2436, signal 6, core limit 18446744073709551615, dump mode 1
ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: ignoring implausibly big core limit, treating as unlimited
ERROR: ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: Unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 521, in <module>
    (info['ExecutablePath'], info['ProcCmdline']))
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 131, in error_log
    apport.error('apport (pid %s) %s: %s', os.getpid(), time.asctime(), msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 44, in error
    sys.stderr.write(msg % args)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 139-140: ordinal not in range(128)
ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: pid: 3469, uid: 1000, gid: 1000, euid: 0, egid: 0
ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: environment: environ({})

instead of dump in /var/crash

Ubuntu version 18.04

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  apport cann't save a dump due UnicodeEncodeError

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've installed russian locale and have a Desktop folder named "Рабочий
  стол"

  When I launch application from Desktop and it crash I got in
  /var/log/apport.log

  ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: called for pid 2436, signal 6, core limit 18446744073709551615, dump mode 1
  ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: ignoring implausibly big core limit, treating as unlimited
  ERROR: ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: Unhandled exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 521, in <module>
      (info['ExecutablePath'], info['ProcCmdline']))
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 131, in error_log
      apport.error('apport (pid %s) %s: %s', os.getpid(), time.asctime(), msg)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 44, in error
      sys.stderr.write(msg % args)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 139-140: ordinal not in range(128)
  ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: pid: 3469, uid: 1000, gid: 1000, euid: 0, egid: 0
  ERROR: apport (pid 3469) Fri Mar 15 09:11:12 2019: environment: environ({})

  instead of dump in /var/crash

  Ubuntu version 18.04

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