ufw crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_loglevel(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Karma Dorje]

# ufw version
ufw 0.31-0ubuntu1
Copyright 2008-2010 Canonical Ltd.

# python --version
Python 2.7.3rc1

# ufw status verbose
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/ufw", line 111, in <module>
    res = ui.do_action(pr.action, "", "", pr.force)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ufw/frontend.py", line 580, in do_action
    res = self.get_status(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ufw/frontend.py", line 246, in get_status
    out = self.backend.get_status(verbose, show_count)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ufw/backend_iptables.py", line 416, in get_status
    (level, logging_str) = self.get_loglevel()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ufw/backend.py", line 542, in get_loglevel
    rstr += "on (%s)" % (self.defaults['loglevel'])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ufw 0.31-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 10 11:47:10 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/ufw
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/ufw status verbose
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/ufw', 'status', 'verbose']
SourcePackage: ufw
Title: ufw crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_loglevel(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-03 (6 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thank you for using Ubuntu and reporting a bug. What locale are you using? Ie, can you please give the output of the 'locale' command?

[Karma Dorje (taaroa)]

# locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=ru:en
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

# ufw version
ufw 0.31-0ubuntu2
Copyright 2008-2010 Canonical Ltd.

# ufw status verbose
Статус: включен
Журналирование: on (low)
По умолчанию: deny (входящие), allow (исходящие)
Новые профили: skip

[Sergey Shmakov (shmakov)]

Try this

# sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

This is works in my case - "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: invalid continuation byte"

[[e-mail] (fathi733-gmail)]

Thanks,
it helped me in arch also.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

@fathi733-gmail - this should've been fixed a long time ago. Anything you see now should be a new bug. Can you file one at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ufw/+filebug?