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Mekk (marcin-kasperski) wrote : Unicode decode error during upgrade to 14.04

do-release-upgrade fails as below. I am using Polish utf-8 locale, so I suspect something called reports error in Polish with non-ascii characters...

File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/trusty", line 10, in
<module>
sys.exit(main())

File
"/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py",
line 240, in main
save_system_state(logdir)

File
"/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py",
line 133, in save_system_state
scrub_sources=True)

File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py",
line 150, in save_state
self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources)

File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py",
line 231, in _write_state_sources_list
"./etc/apt/sources.list")

File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-j2xvu5/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py",
line 251, in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check
for line in f.readlines():

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position
2604: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 3.11.10.5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic-tuxonice x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Apr 18 11:54:23 2014
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-oneiric-amd64-20111116-1
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-07 (711 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20111116-18:24
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)