On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:40 +0000, drew212 wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. This bug did not have the correct package associated with > it as you suggested in your last comment; so I have assigned the correct > package, checkbox. > > For future reference: If the application doesn't have a Help > Report a > Problem... menu then you can use "ubuntu-bug [packagename]" in the > terminal to open a bug report that lists the correct package. > > ** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => checkbox (Ubuntu) >
This is a round-about way of reporting a bug, but I can't seem to get into launchpad. I did log in but firefox closed unexpectedly and now I can't seem to get anywhere except a page titled openID transaction in progress which tries to load but times out. Seems you can't get there from here. Anyway - what I am trying to report seems to be a bug in the update program aptBackend.py or Backend.py. When doing an update a window opened with the text - Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> Error Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, exceptions.SystemError found File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in <module> main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in main run(args, options.single) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in run backend.dispatcher(args) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 606, in dispatch_command self.refresh_cache(force) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 202, in _locked_cache func(*args, **kwargs) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1498, in refresh_cache format_string(error.message)) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 723, in format_string txt = unicode(text, encoding, errors='replace') What any of this means, I don't know, but hopefully someone will get this message and know what to do with it. Sorry for this but I didn't know how else to report it. Roy (rdst...@shaw.ca) -- system testing locked up at dead pixel test https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606526 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
