UnicodeEncodeError when u1sdtool --waiting-metadata

[Elliot Murphy]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

u1sdtool is crashing on my machine after I started syncing my Music folder (totally separate from purchased music).

emurphy@sunk:~$ u1sdtool --waiting-metadata

Oops, an error ocurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/dbus_interface.py", line 204, in waiting_metadata
    waiting_metadata.append(str(cmd))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/action_queue.py", line 1442, in __str__
    for attr in str_attrs]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.2.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 10 00:50:05 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
UbuntuOneClientConfig:
 [ubuntuone]
 connected = True
 connect = 0
 show_applet = 0
 bookmarked = True
UbuntuOneSyncdaemonExceptionsLog:

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

From a user in #ubuntuone
matt@it:~/.cache/ubuntuone/log$ u1sdtool --waiting-metadata | wc -l

Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
          org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in
             _message_cb
  retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords) File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/dbus_interface.py", line 204, in
                   waiting_metadata
   waiting_metadata.append(str(cmd)) File
                   "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/action_queue.py",
                  line 1442, in __str__ for attr in str_attrs]
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in
                   position 6: ordinal not in range(128)