Failure during backup, probably bad path name

[Sidnei da Silva]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1403, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1396, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1378, in main
    incremental_backup(sig_chain)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 563, in incremental_backup
    bytes_written = dummy_backup(tarblock_iter)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 197, in dummy_backup
    while tarblock_iter.next():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 507, in next
    result = self.process(self.input_iter.next(), size)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 188, in get_delta_iter
    for new_path, sig_path in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 267, in collate2iters
    relem1 = riter1.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/selection.py", line 187, in Iterate
    log.Debug(_("Selecting %s") % subpath.name)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: duplicity 0.6.19-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 11 18:31:26 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120901)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: duplicity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Thank you for the report! This looks like bug 989496, so I'll mark it as a duplicate. I'm looking into the issue.