UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec ... in osutils.file_kind

[Gerhard du Toit]

doing the following command
openerp@core:/opt/extra-addons$ sudo bzr update -v

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 32: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1081, in run
    possible_transports=possible_transports)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2175, in update
    return self._update_tree(old_tip, change_reporter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 51, in tree_write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2215, in _update_tree
    change_reporter=change_reporter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 1198, in merge_inner
    return merger.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 421, in do_merge
    merge.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 520, in do_merge
    self._compute_transform()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 562, in _compute_transform
    executable3, file_status)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 955, in _merge_executable
    if self.tt.final_kind(trans_id) != "file":
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 492, in final_kind
    return self.tree_kind(trans_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 473, in tree_kind
    return file_kind(self._tree.abspath(path))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/osutils.py", line 150, in file_kind
    return _mapper(_lstat(f).st_mode)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 32: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 1.3.1 on python 2.5.2.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'update', '-v']
encoding: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', fsenc: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', lang: 'en_GB'
plugins:
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Hi, thanks for the report. This may be better in a later version - you could try upgrading from the ppa if you're on Ubuntu.