computer-janitor crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in _print_message()

[Henrique Ferreiro]

Binary package hint: computer-janitor

It crashes by running:

$ 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 308, in main
    options = Options(runner)
  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computerjanitorapp/cli/main.py", line 114, 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'\xe9' in position 121: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: computer-janitor 2.0.4-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.43-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f1062201dec3d8dce03bf63ca0ef0c17
CheckboxSystem: e2a9e28435948e86843155dc45ba128e
Date: Tue Jan 25 16:49:28 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/computerjanitor/computer-janitor
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/computer-janitor --help
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=gl_ES.utf8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/computer-janitor', '--help']
SourcePackage: computer-janitor
Title: computer-janitor crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in _print_message()
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #621687, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.