Removing the duplicate status. Please mark bug #1201156 as a duplicate instead of this, because it is a private one and it was reported later.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of private bug 1201156 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1198712 Title: software-center-dbus crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in parse_applications_menu(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Recent version of software-center-dbus crashes while starting. Not sure about additional information, but the stack trace may indicate in which circumstances it crashed. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: software-center 13.05-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-2.9-generic 3.10.0 Uname: Linux 3.10.0-2-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jul 7 22:54:49 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-05 (518 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.1) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/software-center/software-center-dbus'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center-dbus crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in parse_applications_menu(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-19 (49 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1198712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp