jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in error_msg(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

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Happened on boot, Natty alpha3.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-common 0.9.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 5 17:30:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-text
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-text -C --no-dbus
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 LC_COLLATE=C
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic root=UUID=a025e2cc-8026-46d4-a5f4-2ec52afdcf52 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-text', '-C', '--no-dbus']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in error_msg(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-05 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/31/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00
dmi.board.name: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: None
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr6.00:bd12/31/2009:svnVMware,Inc.:pnVMwareVirtualPlatform:pvrNone:rvnIntelCorporation:rn440BXDesktopReferencePlatform:rvrNone:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VMware Virtual Platform
dmi.product.version: None
dmi.sys.vendor: VMware, Inc.

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