udev_resource crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_id(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 50: ordinal not in range(128)

[Solomon Nadar]

Apport error that come up frequently. Gives error message Ubuntu 12.04 encountered an error.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: checkbox 0.13.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-1.1-generic 3.5.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 0f511d97ad6dcd12685e49711fbfee9f
CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Jun 26 00:56:08 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/checkbox/scripts/udev_resource
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/checkbox/scripts/udev_resource
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/udev_resource']
SourcePackage: checkbox
Title: udev_resource crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_id(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 50: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-22 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It looks like your udev information contains non-ASCII characters, that would explain the encoding problem you're seeing. I'd like to ask you to please execute the following command, in a terminal:

udevadm info --export-db >/tmp/udev-export.txt

Then, please attach the /tmp/udev-export.txt file to this report. This will allow us to ensure that your udev information can be correctly parsed by the udev_resource script.

Thanks!