ubiquity crashed with TypeError in get_current_disk_partman_id(): decoding Unicode is not supported

[Bogdan Stanciu]

hello,

this is an "automatic" bug report, so I could just say that i test edubuntu 12.04 daily on a Asus eeePc 1101HA.

regards,
Bogdan

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-5.11-generic-pae 3.2.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-5-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.296
Date: Mon Dec 19 10:20:37 2011
DuplicateOf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905916
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111219)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with TypeError in get_current_disk_partman_id(): decoding Unicode is not supported
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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