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

[Paolo Pelloni]

Don't know much more, alpha3 AMD64 lots of things crashed together when tryint to add an Ipp printer ...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-common 0.9.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
.var.log.jockey.log:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 10 13:43:59 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-text
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c024 Logitech, Inc. MX300 Optical Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:0403 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd KU-0420 keyboard
 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: System manufacturer System Product Name
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=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-6-generic root=UUID=42636fde-b3f1-44f5-9689-dce7943c83f1 ro nomodeset 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: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/25/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 0405
dmi.board.name: M2NPV-VM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSM2NPV-VMACPIBIOSRevision0405:bd08/25/2006:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTekComputerINC.:rnM2NPV-VM:rvr1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product 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 #729526, 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.