hi, i have a similar problem with editing my repositorys, i have tried various things and edited /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status in an atempt to fix the issue, i thought it might be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1053749
whenever i try to open software-propertys-gtk i get: $ software-properties-gtk gpg: /tmp/tmp5icpr7/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 103, in <module> app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 169, in __init__ self.show_keys() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 834, in show_keys for key in self.apt_key.list(): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/AptAuth.py", line 77, in list for line in p: File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1140: ordinal not in range(128) Is there any way to reset / reinstal this bit of the repo management?? a way to get back the "default" /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status?? im running 12.10 many thanks ads -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1076165 Title: Can't edit sources To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1076165/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs