2013-10-18 08:00:49,648 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']' 2013-10-18 08:00:49,648 INFO uname information: 'Linux larry 3.8.0-31-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:03:44 UTC 2013 x86_64' 2013-10-18 08:00:49,648 INFO apt version: '0.9.7.7ubuntu4' 2013-10-18 08:00:49,649 INFO release-upgrader version '0.205' started 2013-10-18 08:00:49,703 INFO screen could not be run 2013-10-18 08:00:50,101 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view 2013-10-18 08:00:50,178 DEBUG aufsOptionsAndEnvironmentSetup() 2013-10-18 08:00:50,180 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-rw-xNvhA4' as aufs_rw_dir 2013-10-18 08:00:50,180 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-chroot-WM8fw6' as aufs chroot dir 2013-10-18 08:00:50,181 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite 2013-10-18 08:00:50,211 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz' 2013-10-18 08:00:54,324 ERROR not handled exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/saucy", line 10, in sys.exit(main()) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 240, in main save_system_state(logdir) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 133, in save_system_state scrub_sources=True) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 149, in save_state self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 241, in _write_state_sources_list "./etc/apt/sources.list.d/"+source) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-s4kp5h/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 246, in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check for line in f.readlines(): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 296, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte 2013-10-18 08:00:54,326 DEBUG enabling apt cron job