add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
software-properties (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Tried running the following command in a terminal..
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
..resulted in:
~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
print(" %s" % (ppa_info[
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 24 21:56:42 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
print(" %s" % (ppa_info[
UnicodeEncodeE
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-23 (1 days ago)
UserGroups:
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tags: | removed: need-duplicate-check |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
Could you please attach the output of the locale command for further investigation?