[Bug 870474] Re: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _render_status_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 34: ordinal not in range(128) while synaptic was open

[christophb]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 862029 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862029

After closing synaptic and restarting everything works.

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in
  _render_status_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
  position 34: ordinal not in range(128) while synaptic was open

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

Bug description:
  - synaptic was open
  - opened ubuntu software center and tried to install Adobe Flash Plugin 10

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0.1.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Oct  8 07:28:52 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _render_status_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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