Same problem on Ubuntu 11.04, when adding a repo :
# add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 63,
in run
self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 93,
in add_ppa_signing_key
print "Error reading %s: %s" % (lp_url, e)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 42:
ordinal not in range(128)
I'am behind a proxy :
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
ACQUIRE {
http::proxy "http://172.16.0.63:8080";
}
The locales are :
# locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr:en
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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