I'm wondering if the problem is non-ascii characters in PPA descriptions. Guys any of you have non-ascii characters in the output of this command? sudo apt-key list sudo apt-key list | iconv -f ascii
E.g. I have this, which contains greek chars, so it might be what's crashing aptd: pub 1024D/9849BE20 2009-05-27 uid Hellenic Schools Technical Support Team (Τεχνική Στήριξη ΣΕΠΕΗΥ) <d...@ts.sch.gr> sub 2048g/15480249 2009-05-27 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978654 Title: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/978654/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs