jockey-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in update_tree_model(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jean-Dominique]

Was looking for a proprietary driver on a computer with a nVidia video card.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.8-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 29 18:37:11 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MachineType: System Manufacturer System Name
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.37-12-generic root=UUID=77e783d3-74a6-4fa2-a9fa-e3b43eeeb75c ro single
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-gtk']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in update_tree_model(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 09/02/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1013
dmi.board.name: A7V8X-X
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: REV 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftware,Inc.:bvrASUSA7V8X-XACPIBIOSRevision1013:bd09/02/2004:svnSystemManufacturer:pnSystemName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnA7V8X-X:rvrREV1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct7:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System Manufacturer

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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 #706607, 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.