do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

[lelloaraujo]

error

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager-core 1:0.152.18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 18 13:29:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release -q
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release', '-q']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release", line 109, in <module>
     print _("New release '%s' available.") % m.new_dist.version
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pavel Studeník (junior-pavelstudenik)]

I got similar traceback, when I tried update system to 13.10:

>> upgrade-manager -d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/saucy", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 240, in main
    save_system_state(logdir)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 133, in save_system_state
    scrub_sources=True)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 149, in save_state
    self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 241, in _write_state_sources_list
    "./etc/apt/sources.list.d/"+source)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 252, in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check
    source_copy.write(line)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 82: ordinal not in range(128)

or

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 108, in <module>
    print(_("Checking for a new Ubuntu release"))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xed' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

@Pavel that is a very different traceback which is bug 1212025, which should be fixed in the latest version of the release upgrader. Your /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log file will contain information regarding the version of the dist-upgrader being used and you should be using version 0.204.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Oh, it looks like you are experiencing two different tracebacks, the first one you posted is definitely bug 1212025.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

@Pavel could you provide some more information about how you obtained the second traceback and what language you are using?

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version has expired