[Reportbug-maint] Bug#892898: reportbug crashes due with UnicodeDecodeError
Mikulas Patocka
mikulas at twibright.com
Wed Mar 14 08:21:25 UTC 2018
Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.10
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Reportbug crashes when trying to report a bug for the package 'console-setup'.
The crash happens in text, urwid and gtk2 environments.
The crash happens on Stretch and Sid, it doesn't happen on Jessie.
The crash happens with locales cs_CZ.utf8 and cs_CZ.iso8859-2
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I tried to report bug for the package console-setup.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Start "reportbug -u urwid"
Type "console-setup"
A list of bugs for the package console-setup appears.
Select "New bug"
* What was the outcome of this action?
Reportbug crashes with this error:
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using 'Mikulas Patocka <mikulas at twibright.com>' as your from address.
Getting status for console-setup...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Maintainer for console-setup is 'Debian Install System Team <debian-boot at lists.debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of console-setup...
Getting status for related package ...
Getting status for related package keyboard-configuration...
Looking up 'depends' of related package keyboard-configuration...
Getting status for related package console-setup-mini...
Getting status for related package console-setup-linux...
Looking up 'depends' of related package console-setup-linux...
Looking up 'suggests' of related package console-setup-linux...
Getting status for related package console-setup-freebsd...
Looking up status of additional packages...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2265, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1109, in main
return iface.user_interface()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1849, in user_interface
'/usr/bin/debconf-show %s' % showpkgs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 517, in getstatusoutput
data = check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, stderr=STDOUT)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 336, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 405, in run
stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 830, in communicate
stdout = self.stdout.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 583: invalid continuation byte
Note that when we try it with the locale cs_CZ.iso8859-2, we get a slightly different error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2265, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1109, in main
return iface.user_interface()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1856, in user_interface
"Don't send your debconf settings.", nowrap=True)):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/ui/urwid_ui.py", line 362, in yes_no
result = box.main(ui)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/ui/urwid_ui.py", line 206, in main
return self.ui.run_wrapper(self.run)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urwid/display_common.py", line 773, in run_wrapper
return fn()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/ui/urwid_ui.py", line 158, in run
self.ui.draw_screen(size, canvas)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urwid/raw_display.py", line 850, in draw_screen
self.write(l)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urwid/raw_display.py", line 279, in write
self._term_output_file.write(data)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/iso8859_2.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\ufffd' in position 37: character maps to <undefined>
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The python script shouldn't crash due to encoding errors.
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-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="urwid"
** /home/mikulas/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.6"
mode standard
ui text
email "mikulas at twibright.com"
smtphost "leontynka"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-rc5 (SMP w/12 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=cs_CZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 1.6~beta1
ii python3 3.6.4-1
ii python3-reportbug 7.1.10
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
pn debconf-utils <none>
pn debsums <none>
pn dlocate <none>
pn emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common <none>
ii file 1:5.32-2
pn gir1.2-gtk-3.0 <none>
pn gir1.2-vte-2.91 <none>
pn gnupg | pgp <none>
pn postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent <none>
pn python3-gi <none>
pn python3-gi-cairo <none>
pn python3-gtkspellcheck <none>
ii python3-urwid 2.0.1-1
pn xdg-utils <none>
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 1.6~beta1
ii file 1:5.32-2
ii python3 3.6.4-1
ii python3-apt 1.4.0~beta3+b1
ii python3-debian 0.1.32
ii python3-debianbts 2.7.2
ii python3-requests 2.18.4-2
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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