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Please reopen this issue in the new bugtracker if it is still an issue.
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Whenever I invoke smart from the command line (i.e., without the --gui switch) I
get the following output:

Loading cache...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/commands/info.py", line 56, in main
    ctrl.reloadChannels()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 347, in
reloadChannels
    (channel.getName() or channel.getAlias()))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal
not in range(128)

The program then returns me to the shell prompt.

I can still run the GUI, but the interface locks up after trying to update all
packages.

This may be related to Issue 52 or Issue 134.