← Back to team overview

desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[Bug 1400232] Re: system-config-printer crash UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte

 

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer -
1.5.4+20141212-0ubuntu1

---------------
system-config-printer (1.5.4+20141212-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
     o GIT 1.5.x snapshot from 12 December 2014
     o Fixed all problems which prevented the automatic download of printer
       driver packages (LP: #1401835).
     o Handle non-UTF8 PPD files (LP: #1400232).
     o Use 'with' when dealing with temporary files.
     o troubleshoot: get logs from cups.service, not just cupsd
     o Avoid traceback (Red Hat bug #1171469).
     o Fixed 'Search' button icon.
     o Debug output showing DBus exception message.
     o Fixed display of downloadable drivers (Red Hat bug #1167978).
     o Prevent backtrace (Red Hat bug #1167978).
     o Refresh job-printer-uri in update_job
     o Consider version suffixes in Nickname for PPDs from Canon drivers
       (fedorahosted.org bug #235).
     o Extract hostname from hp:/net/...?hostname= URIs when grouping by
       physical device (Red Hat bug #1154686).
     o Codec fix for AuthDialog.get_auth_info (Red Hat bug #1060453).
     o Catch IPPError when writing server settings (Red Hat bug #1159584).
     o OpenPrintingRequest lock handling fixes
     o Never set SMB Verify button sensitive without checking pysmb is
       available
     o PackageKit-based installation of smb backend on demand is now fixed
     o Ubuntu fix for on demand installation of libsane-hpaio
     o HP MFP devices that cannot scan are now properly detected
     o ppdcache: handle errors more gracefully
     o Don't try to remove gobject sources that are already removed
     o A Python 3 fix when dealing with HPLIP fax devices
     o Fixed physical device grouping by using the cupshelpers.ppds
       'normalize' function for comparisons
     o Cancel deferred timer on quit (possible fix for Red Hat bug #1145388)
     o Don't use deprecated GTK+ widgets and properties
     o React to button-press-event for Move To submenu in jobviewer
       (LP: #1388601)
  * debian/patches/35_package-download-fixes.patch: Removed, included upstream.
 -- Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@xxxxxxxxx>   Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:41:08 +0100

** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1400232

Title:
  system-config-printer crash UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't
  decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte

Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  system-config-printer crash with the following traceback :

  sramage@japc09:~$ system-config-printer
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncipp.py", line 191, in send_reply
      handler (self._conn, result)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncpk1.py", line 164, in _ipp_reply_handler
      self._client_reply_handler (self._conn, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 91, in reply_handler
      self._reply_handler (self, self._reply_data, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 209, in _subst_reply_handler
      reply_handler (self, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 79, in <lambda>
      self._got_ppd3 (c, name, r, callback),
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 153, in _got_ppd3
      self.fetch_ppd (name, callback, check_uptodate=False)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 90, in fetch_ppd
      tmpf.writelines (f.readlines ())
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1400232/+subscriptions


References