Public bug reported: Kpackagekit crashes when installing packages from folders with non ascii names:
kpackagekit /home/kasutaja/Töö/knemo_0.5.1-0~getdeb1_i386.deb isFIle kasut...@arla32:~$ New transaction with tid "/27_badbbbac_data" KPackageKit(5091) KpkIcons::actionIcon: action unrecognised: 9 enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1 KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::errorCode: errorCode: 3 "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/daemonBackend.py", line 109, in run threading.Thread.run(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 168, in wrapper func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 1261, in doInstallFiles deb = debfile.DebPackage(path, self._cache) File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 53, in __init__ self.open(filename) File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 58, in open if not apt_inst.arCheckMember(open(self.filename), "debian-binary"): UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 16-17: ordinal not in range(128) " KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Failed. KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Yep, we failed. KPackageKit(5091) KpkInstallFiles::installFilesFinished: Finished. removing transaction from pool : "/27_badbbbac_data" This occurs with letters such as ö, ä, ü, õ and it is important since for example "Desktop" is "Töölaud" in Estonian and "Työpöytä" in Finnish. ** Affects: kpackagekit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- kpackagekit crashes when installing packages from non ascii folders https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347327 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs