It's similar to bug 707490, but I have just caught it on aptdaemon 0.41+bzr604-0ubuntu1 on Xubuntu 11.04 trying to install Chromium via SC.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: aptdaemon - - Slomalos' bliat' ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: aptdaemon 0.41+bzr586-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 25 12:39:07 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007.1) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd ProcEnviron: - + PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd'] SourcePackage: aptdaemon Title: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_status_details(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) UserGroups: ** Tags removed: amd64 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724735 Title: aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_status_details(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs