Hi guys,

I'm running Edubuntu (ubuntu 6.06) on my Toshiba laptop. Yesterday I installed and used ipodder v. 2.1.9-4. Worked just fine. Today I booted up and ipodder fails after the splash screen. I have tried starting it in both gnome and kde with the same results.

Here is the output when I try starting from the command prompt:

pennyg@pennytoy:~$ ipodder
[<class 'ipodder.players.XMMSPlayer'>, <class 'ipodder.players.NoPlayer'>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 3531, in ?
main()
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 3525, in main
myApp = iPodderGui(ipodder)
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 590, in __init__
wx.App.__init__(self, False, None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7473, in __init__
self._BootstrapApp()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7125, in _BootstrapApp
return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 1460, in OnInit
self.PopulateDownloadsTab()
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 3233, in PopulateDownloadsTab
self.DownloadTabLog(encinfo,prune=False)
File "/usr/share/ipodder/iPodderGui.py", line 3143, in DownloadTabLog
index = self.downloads.InsertStringItem(0,encinfo.item_title)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_controls.py", l ine 4764, in InsertStringItem
return _controls_.ListCtrl_InsertStringItem(*args, **kwargs)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid dat a

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Well, I can't "decode" what the problem is from that. Can anyone help?

Many thanks ...

I don't know what was wrong but I uninstalled the program, deleted the .ipodder folder in the home folder and then installed again. It now works but it did before so we'll see if it works tomorrow.