FS#43544 - [dex] Unable to start vboxclient.desktop: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Alain Kalker (ackalker) - Thursday, 22 January 2015, 23:17 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 00:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

On a freshly installed Arch Linux system running in a VM, I'm unable to get dex to autostart the Virtualbox client using its autostart desktop file.
Running dex manually in dry-run mode, I get the following message:

$ dex -dv /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop
Dry run, nothing is executed.
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 247: ordinal not in range(128)

dex has no problem reading other desktop files, for instance:

$ dex -dv /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop
Dry run, nothing is executed.
Autostart file: /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop
Executing command: urxvt

On another system (which has many more (Python) packages installed, dex loads the desktop file (and runs the Virtualbox client) without problems, so I'm suspecting some kind of missing package dependency.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
dex 0.7-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
- Start out with a freshly installed or pacstrap'ped system
- Use dex with the attached .desktop file: `dex -dv vboxclient.desktop`
   vboxclient.desktop (0.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 00:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Reopen, when you upstream provide a patch
Comment by Alain Kalker (ackalker) - Thursday, 22 January 2015, 23:21 GMT
Perhaps this is yet another of those lovely locale / UTF8 problems: the desktop file probably contains some UTF8 text, while the problematic VM runs with C locale (actually, no locales generated or specified at all). The system where dex runs without problems has locale setup for en_US.utf8 .
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 25 January 2015, 19:51 GMT
Please report your issue upstream, that's linked to python and its ascii/unicode handling.
Comment by Alain Kalker (ackalker) - Monday, 26 January 2015, 04:34 GMT
Okay, I will do that when I have some spare time.

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