[Bug 820305] Re: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

[Marc Deslauriers]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Visibility changed to: Public

** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in
  init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3:
  ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  when i start the os, the bug appear.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug  3 10:25:06 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk /etc/apt/sources.lihostname
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh:gv:gv_GB:zh_HK:zh_SG:zh_TW
   PATH=(cuhostnameom, no user)
   LANG=zh_CN.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '/etc/apt/sources.lihostname']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-02 (0 days ago)
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