The troublesome part of the code was removed completely thus fixing this particular crash which seems to be related to the way python handles input and output (in this case there probably was an encoding collision).
Anyway. Thank you very much for this report and have a nice day. ** Changed in: install-package (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- python2.6 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397780 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs