UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When trying to perform a do-release-upgrade from precise to quantal,
the upgrade is aborted, when I try to view the "details" of the upgrade:
Fortsetzen [j/N] Details [d]d
Ein schwerwiegender Fehler ist aufgetreten
Bitte erstellen Sie einen Fehlerbericht und fügen Sie die Dateien
/var/log/
hinzu. Die Systemaktualisi
Ihre ursprüngliche sources.list wurde in
/etc/apt/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/update-
sys.exit(main())
File "/tmp/update-
line 240, in main
if app.run():
File
"/tmp/update-
line 1764, in run
return self.fullUpgrade()
File
"/tmp/update-
line 1721, in fullUpgrade
if not self.askDistUpg
File
"/tmp/update-
line 969, in askDistUpgrade
self.cache.
File "/tmp/update-
line 195, in confirmChanges
self.showInPage
File "/tmp/update-
line 143, in showInPager
p.stdin.
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager-core 1:0.156.14.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-rc6aha1+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 20 10:36:58 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-02-20 (0 days ago)
FYI, the following does work:
export LANG=C; do-release-upgrade -d
This bug is most probably locale related...