Hi Nick, thanks for reporting this. This particular crash should be fixed in recently released versions of software-center. Please update to the latest (if you have not done so already), and please reopen this (or just report a new bug) if you do see this crash again.
Thanks very much for your help! ** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823225 Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128) Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: software-center-gtk3 crashed ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: software-center 4.1.12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Aug 9 16:23:27 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3 InstallationMedia: InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128) UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-09 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/823225/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp