ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_ssid(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

[RobinJ]

This happened when booting the Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 AMD64 LiveCD (CD-RW).
I got a messaqe telling me I'd be dumped into a live session.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.7.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.280
Date: Sun Sep 4 15:50:48 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --greeter --only
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/2997/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--greeter', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_ssid(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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