Public bug reported:
When using apport-collect in an environment with kde, it consistently
crashes
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$ apport-collect 1589997
dpkg-query: no packages found matching linux
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 530, in <module>
sys.exit(UserInterface.run_argv())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 653, in run_argv
return self.run_update_report()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 569, in
run_update_report
response = self.ui_present_report_details(allowed_to_report)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 367, in ui_present_report_details
desktop_info)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 184, in __init__
self.ui.ui_update_view(self)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 358, in ui_update_view
QTreeWidgetItem(keyitem, [str(line)])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position
21: ordinal not in range(128)
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There is a patch in a comment in this bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1368911) by @schmod, but
the bug is for apport, hence I am opening this as a new one.
I tested the patch on my system and now it works as expected.
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "Patch provided by schmod"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1590656/+attachment/4680185/+files/apport-kde.patch
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Title:
apport-kde from xenial crashes due to charset encodings
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
When using apport-collect in an environment with kde, it consistently
crashes
---------------------------
$ apport-collect 1589997
dpkg-query: no packages found matching linux
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 530, in <module>
sys.exit(UserInterface.run_argv())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 653, in run_argv
return self.run_update_report()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 569, in
run_update_report
response = self.ui_present_report_details(allowed_to_report)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 367, in ui_present_report_details
desktop_info)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 184, in __init__
self.ui.ui_update_view(self)
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 358, in ui_update_view
QTreeWidgetItem(keyitem, [str(line)])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position
21: ordinal not in range(128)
-------------------------
There is a patch in a comment in this bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1368911) by @schmod, but
the bug is for apport, hence I am opening this as a new one.
I tested the patch on my system and now it works as expected.
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