Package: dhelp Version: 0.6.21+nmu5 Followup-For: Bug #768127 I don't know if it helps, but I got a similar error from the weekly cron task.
LANG=C sudo /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:185:in `===' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:185:in `block in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:183:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:183:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:309:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:309:in `block (2 levels) in each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:306:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:306:in `block in each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:305:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:305:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:456:in `_register_docs' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:387:in `rebuild' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:204:in `main' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:216:in `<main>') It seems to work fine with my default locale: LANG=es_CO.utf8 sudo /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp I added a "puts @path" in /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:184 and it shows this: ... /var/lib/doc-base/documents/bogofilter-bogotune-faq /var/lib/doc-base/documents/developers-reference /var/lib/doc-base/documents/developers-reference /var/lib/doc-base/documents/developers-reference /var/lib/doc-base/documents/developers-reference ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:186:in `===' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:186:in `block in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:183:in `each' ... The problem rises when it parses the fourth line in developers-reference: Author: Adam Di Carlo, Josip Rodin, Raphaël Hertzog, et al It doesn't complain when I use fr_FR.UTF-8 ! (which is not consisent :P) Cheers, Santiago -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_CO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dhelp depends on: ii doc-base 0.10.6 ii libdata-page-perl 2.02-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8+b1 ii libtemplate-perl 2.24-1.2+b1 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii perl-modules 5.20.1-3 ii poppler-utils 0.26.5-2 ii pstotext 1.9-6+b1 ii ruby 1:2.1.0.4 ii ruby-bdb 0.6.6-1+b2 ii ruby-debian 0.3.9 ii ruby-gettext 3.1.2-1 ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u1 ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2 ii ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter] 2.1.5-1 ii swish++ 6.1.5-2.2 ii ucf 3.0030 Versions of packages dhelp recommends: ii chromium [www-browser] 38.0.2125.101-3 ii html2text 1.3.2a-18 ii iceweasel [www-browser] 31.2.0esr-3 ii opera [www-browser] 12.16.1860 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19 Versions of packages dhelp suggests: ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-8 ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-8 pn catdvi <none> pn info2www <none> pn man2html <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
