After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04.1 LTS I have the same
error, slightly different:
root@amd8:/home/helmut# software-properties-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 101, in
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, opti
I also was affected by this bug, caused by the third party package
Scrivener (see comment #30 above by Rofko (lukejtmason)), and resolved
it by editing removing the improperly encoded characters from
/var/lib/dpkg/status.
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It seems the odd characters do in fact have a valid UTF-8 encoding, but
for some reason they have been encoded incorrectly. I was able to fix
them as follows:
cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | iconv -c -f utf-8 -t utf-8 > /tmp/status.fixed
cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | iconv -c -f utf-8 -t utf-8 > /tmp/a
Using some of the above suggestions, I am still unable to identify the
problematic character.
grep-status -r . | iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2le 1> /dev/null; echo $?
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1907586
1
Sooo... What file do I need to investigate?
I don't have /var/lib/dpkg/source, and
Wanted to post and confirm that I had the same problem, and the fix in
posts 16 and 17 fixed this for me. Wanted to say thanks!
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i have slightly different bug: instead of position 114 it is position
796, like doug above who has position 74, that must have something to do
with it?
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I had this problem caused by " zygrib" in Xubuntu (voyager) 12.10
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I am also experiencing this issue on a Mint Linux 14 Cinnamon. I tried
finding invalid characters in the files listed but there were none. I
saved each file with gedit which did not help. I did have davmail
installed for a day, but I uninstalled it before this error started.
software-properties-gt
Extremely annoying. I can imagine that most "users" actually have no
chance of fixing this!
My problem is that the error remains evean after fixing the bad davmail
packager. Any ideas what else to check?
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For belgians: This bug happens if you install beid packages provided by
the gov, because the maintainer's name is not valid UTF8.
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adamski99 - you can use the various iconv commands in the comments to
locate the problematic line in your file, then edit it. You'd probably
want to mention the package here, too.
Personally, it was davmail. Thanks for the fix.
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** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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so i dont have any reference to davmail in /var/lib/dpkg/source or
/var/lib/dpkg/available here on 12.10, can someone sugest a way to find
the offending character?
cheers
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Removed davmail and working
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reported this to the Davmail maintainer at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3592474&group_id=184600&atid=909904
** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #3592474
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=3592474
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I forgot to close the bug in the changelog:
ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.2.72) raring; urgency=low
[ Matthias Klose ]
* Build-depend on python3-all.
[ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
* Use /usr/bin/python3 shebang.
[ Martin Pitt ]
* debian/tests/system: Fix duplicate output of error message for te
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Raring)
Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed
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I have had this problem twice in a couple of days - first with davmail, which I
just removed using apt-get, and then with another programme, Scrivener (beta
for linux, but very reputable) , which placed illegal characters in the same
way. Removed them and saved - resolved the problem.
Rfk
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This worked for me too jut had toedit the status file and save as UTF-8
many many thanks!
Paul
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Fixed for next release: force UTF-8 file.encoding at build time
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Confirmed: it's a bug in ant-deb-task which does not force file encoding
=> target control file encoding depends on build platform encoding
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I drop him (Micka�l Guessant, davmail) a note.
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** Summary changed:
- installing davmail breaks /var/lib/dpkg/available
+ UnicodeDecodeError from broken package descriptions
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