Ubuntu
apport package

/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:UnicodeDecodeError:/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk@597:run_argv:run_crashes:run_crash:collect_info:exc_raise:run:known:known

Bug #1791156 reported by errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/ed1b5a271c91539c7dc5b75a2c72efcbd23a7829 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Here's the Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 597, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 687, in run_argv
    return self.run_crashes()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 244, in run_crashes
    self.run_crash(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 288, in run_crash
    self.collect_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1096, in collect_info
    known_thread.exc_raise()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 63, in exc_raise
    raise self._exception[1].with_traceback(self._exception[2])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 33, in run
    self._retval = self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 891, in known
    url = apport.crashdb.CrashDatabase.known(self, report)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/crashdb.py", line 282, in known
    contents = f.read().decode('UTF-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 7793: invalid start byte

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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