this was fixed in software-properties (0.81.6) oneiric; urgency=low [ Michael Vogt ] * softwareproperties/ppa.py: - show PPA description and confirm before adding (security-o-catch-all spec)
[ Martin Pitt ] * softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py: Fix encoding error, thanks to sokolov-m-v for the patch! (LP: #815480) -- Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:51 +0200 and there is no recent duplicate. closing as 'fix released' ** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815642 Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/815642/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs