UnicodeDecodeError: ubuntu one applet crashes while synchronising

[mrgent]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

Don't know, just shows error message.

ProblemType: Bug
.home.bo..config.ubuntuone.ubuntuone.client.conf:
 [ubuntuone]
 bookmarked = True
 connected = False
 connect = 0
 show_applet = 1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 12 17:35:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.0.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Rick McBride (rmcbride)]

This looks like the problem:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 10-15: unsupported Unicode code range
2009-11-12 17:34:55,765 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.State - ERROR - WORKING_ON_METADATA_WITH_CONTQ --[SYS_META_QUEUE_DONE]--> ERROR!!!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/state.py", line 74, in handle_default
    next_state.enter(self.main)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/states.py", line 637, in <lambda>
    enter=lambda m: m.action_q.content_queue.run(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/action_queue.py", line 465, in run
    self._head = command = self._get_next_runnable_command()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/action_queue.py", line 549, in set_head
    self.change_notification_cb(head, self.waiting)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/dbus_interface.py", line 275, in emit_content_queue_changed
    self.ContentQueueChanged(message)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/decorators.py", line 309, in emit_signal
    message.append(signature=signature, *args)
UnicodeError: String parameters to be sent over D-Bus must be valid UTF-8

[Rick McBride (rmcbride)]

we're dropping a conversion of something before handing it to d-bus somehow.

[Lucio Torre (lucio.torre)]

its a know issue, this may or may not be a new defect related to that.
assigning to facundo for him to decide.