I can confirm that the patch (adding , encoding='utf-8') from Václav
fixes this issue.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
** Tags added: patch
** Summary changed:
- UnicodeDecodeError in
Just adding more evidence:
ERROR: apport (pid 23189) Fri Aug 29 21:15:48 2014: called for pid 23182,
signal 11, core limit 18446744073709551615
ERROR: apport (pid 23189) Fri Aug 29 21:15:48 2014: ignoring implausibly big
core limit, treating as unlimited
ERROR: apport (pid 23189) Fri Aug 29
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
Just looking at the approt source, in is_closing_session, the error is
here:
with open('/proc/%s/environ' % pid) as e:
env = e.read().split('\0')
This is normally not a problem with python3, but apport runs for some
reason with the ascii encoding, which will fail when reading utf-8
