I have hit this again. It is the krdc installation that causes the crash only.
No further doing is needed than this. ** Also affects: software-center Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Project changed: software-center => kdenetwork (Ubuntu) ** Package changed: kdenetwork (Ubuntu) => kdenetwork-kde4 (Ubuntu) ** Package changed: kdenetwork-kde4 (Ubuntu) => kdenetwork (Ubuntu) -- 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/1082629 Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _call_apport_recoverable_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) Status in “kdenetwork” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have used Software-Cener to install "krdc". On this and a following search for "remnia" Software-Center popup a error dialog for telling that krdc has missing dependences. The detail view of the error popup gives only back a emty list. Apport catched this crasher following. Steps to reproduce(not retested): 1.Start Software-Center and search for "krdc" 2.Start the installation of "krdc" 3.Immediatelly after starting the installation process search for "remnia". 4.See the error message that dependences for krdc are not resolvable. 5.Open the detail messagebox of the error popup and see that the list of missing packages is emty. 6.See the crasher ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: software-center 5.5.0 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-2.8-generic 3.7.0-rc5 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Nov 24 11:49:49 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-22 (124 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no username) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _call_apport_recoverable_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-15 (8 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/1082629/+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