Bug 490063 - liveusb-creator crashes with unicode encode error
Summary: liveusb-creator crashes with unicode encode error
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: liveusb-creator
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: kushaldas@gmail.com
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-13 03:19 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2009-03-20 18:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 3.6.3-1.fc9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-03-20 18:32:43 UTC
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Description Christoph Wickert 2009-03-13 03:19:02 UTC
Description of problem:
liveusb-creator crashes due to an unicode error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liveusb-creator-3.5-2.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 liveusb-creator
  
Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/liveusb-creator", line 75, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/liveusb-creator", line 70, in main
    LiveUSBApp(opts, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 54, in __init__
    self.mywindow = LiveUSBDialog(opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 245, in __init__
    self.populate_devices()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 275, in populate_devices
    self.textEdit.setPlainText(str(e).encode('utf8'))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2009-03-13 03:30:11 UTC
Fixed in liveusb-creator-3.6.3-1.fc10, which has just been been built one hour ago.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-03-13 18:34:18 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.6.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update liveusb-creator'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-2640

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-03-13 18:38:38 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.6.3-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update liveusb-creator'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-2659

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-03-20 18:32:37 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.6.3-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-03-20 18:35:54 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.6.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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