Upgrade to Feisty Fawn crashed on UnicodeEncodeError

[Petra Tobolikova]

Binary package hint: update-manager

This bug is very similar to Bug #91295, but the error message on the last line differs.
After installing most of the new packages for Feisty Fawn the upgrade tool crashed this way:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/dist-upgrade.py", line 48, in ?
    app.run()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 844, in run
    self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 826, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.doDistUpgrade():
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 534, in doDistUpgrade
    res = self.cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 204, in commit
    if res == pm.ResultCompleted:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 179, in installArchives
    installProgress.finishUpdate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/progress.py", line 217, in run
    os._exit(res)
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 259, in waitChild
    self.updateInterface()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerLBkA3b.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 281, in updateInterface
    logging.warning("no activity on terminal for %s seconds (%s)" % (self.TIMEOUT_TERMINAL_ACTIVITY, self.label_status.text()))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 10-11: ordinal not in range(128)

Now I'm not able to boot with the new kernel version 2.6.20.12, but with the original 2.6.17.11 neither. I found that in the /boot directory there are initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic and initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic.dpkg-bak files both with 0 B length and no initrd.img-2.6.20-12-generic file. I'm currently running with the older version 2.6.17.10 and I hope the official upgrade will install the new kernel version properly...

[Petra Tobolikova (petra-tobolikova)]

Kernel 2.6.20-12 already working fine, sorry for the premature information.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

I can't recreate this, what locale are you using?

[Beauregard (alain-beauregard)]

On 3/26/07, Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 94927 ***
>
> I can't recreate this, what locale are you using?
>
> --
> Upgrade to Feisty Fawn crashed on UnicodeEncodeError
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/95465
>

I installed French language.
In Regional & Language - System Settings, I currently have
Country : Canada
Languages:
   US English
   French

When I start a console, my environment variables are set as follows:
   LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr

Other probably useless info:

In the Adept console, I get the following error constantly:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Thanks,
- Alain