bug

[Roy Strachan]

Hi

This message is popping up on my screen and I can't figure out how to
report it.  Launchpad is running me around in circles.  Hopefully
someone here knows what to do with it.  I sure don't.

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
Error Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
exceptions.SystemError found
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in
<module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in
main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in
run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
699, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
606, in dispatch_command
    self.refresh_cache(force)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 202, in
_locked_cache
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1498, in
refresh_cache
    format_string(error.message))
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
723, in format_string
    txt = unicode(text, encoding, errors='replace')