ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_ssid(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

[Stefan Lithén]

during install

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.7.35
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.284
Date: Sat Oct 1 19:04:33 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.3)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/4116/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode_ssid(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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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 #839143, 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.