computer-janitor crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in _print_message()

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu]

Binary package hint: computer-janitor

I just ran:

$ computer-janitor -h

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/computer-janitor", line 35, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computerjanitorapp/cli/main.py", line 306, in main
    options = Options(runner)
  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computerjanitorapp/cli/main.py", line 112, in __init__
    self.arguments = self.parser.parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1698, in parse_args
    args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1730, in parse_known_args
    return self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1932, in _parse_known_args
    start_index = consume_optional(start_index)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1872, in consume_optional
    take_action(action, args, option_string)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1800, in take_action
    action(self, namespace, argument_values, option_string)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1023, in __call__
    parser.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 2319, in print_help
    self._print_message(self.format_help(), file)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 2333, in _print_message
    file.write(message)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0103' in position 498: ordinal not in range(128)

However, not suplying "-h" leads to:

$ computer-janitor
usage: computer-janitor [-h] [--version] {ignore,unignore,find,clean} ...
computer-janitor: error: too few arguments

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: computer-janitor 2.0.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 21 12:58:48 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/computerjanitor/computer-janitor
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/computer-janitor -h
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=ro_RO.utf8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/computer-janitor', '-h']
SourcePackage: computer-janitor
Title: computer-janitor crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in _print_message()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

This could be a locale issue with argparse. What locale are you running? Try running 'printenv' in a shell and pasting the values for the following environment variables:

LANGUAGE
LC_ALL
LC_MESSAGES
LANG

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu (lucian.grijincu)]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Barry Warsaw
<email address hidden> wrote:
> This could be a locale issue with argparse.  What locale are you
> running?  Try running 'printenv' in a shell and pasting the values for
> the following environment variables:
>
> LANGUAGE
> LC_ALL
> LC_MESSAGES
> LANG

gringo@lethe:~$ printenv | grep LANG
LANG=ro_RO.utf8
GDM_LANG=ro_RO.utf8

gringo@lethe:~$ printenv | grep LC_
<nothing printed>

gringo@lethe:~$ locale
LANG=ro_RO.utf8
LC_CTYPE="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_TIME="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_PAPER="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_NAME="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ro_RO.utf8"
LC_ALL=

--
 .
..: Lucian