[Bug 978654] Re: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

[Colin Watson]

To recapitulate my position on IRC: the other dbus.String calls aren't
relevant.  The problem here is that at the point when retrieving
information from python-apt, aptdaemon doesn't convert it to the types
it requires internally.  Worrying about the other dbus.String calls
would miss the point and would at best mask other bugs, possibly in ways
that would cause data corruption rather than crashes.

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Title:
  <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode
  byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in Aptdaemon:
  New
Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  No noticable problems - this message came up during boot

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Annotation: Search failed
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Apr 10 07:45:48 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: aptdaemon
  Title: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
  TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
  TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
  TransactionKwargs: {'filters': [u'unknown']}
  TransactionLocale: en_GB.UTF-8
  TransactionOutput:
   
  TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
  TransactionRole: role-pk-query
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-26 (44 days ago)

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