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I suspect this has to do with some non-ascii characters in the output for gconftool-2, which aren't correctly handled by gconf_resource. However I was unable to reproduce this on my local system, even after setting my locale and language to the same ones you have (french). Non- english locales usually make encoding problems pop up, and we're very interested in getting these worked out. Could you please run the following command in a terminal: gconftool-2 -R / --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:$HOME/.gconf >/tmp/gconf.txt and then attach the resulting /tmp/gconf.txt file to this report? This will let me see where the problem is, and fix gconf_resource to handle this particular case (and hopefully any others) correctly. Thanks! I'm setting as incomplete while you attach the file, and importance: high as any internationalization-related problems are bound to affect a large number of people. ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022593 Title: gconf_resource crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_gconf(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2527: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkbox/+bug/1022593/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs