[Bug 928891] Re: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.20

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ubiquity (2.9.20) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Restore old fallback code in case /cdrom/casper/filesystem.size doesn't
    exist (LP: #557388).
  * Fix some more uses of deprecated python-apt APIs.
  * ubiquity-dm: Try openbox after openbox-lubuntu (LP: #888107).
  * Thomson SA is now called Technicolor SA (LP: #856992).
  * Limit maximum length of username editing widgets to 32 (LP: #831319).
  * UTF-8-encode the syslog message when a geoname lookup fails, since it
    might include non-ASCII characters entered by the user (LP: #928891).
  * Run test suite under xvfb-run by default when running it from the
    command line.  'tests/run --no-xvfb' inhibits this behaviour for cases
    where it's useful to see the UIs constructed by the test suite.
  * Stop manually inserting newlines in hostname and username errors.  GTK+
    3 seems to do a reasonable job of wrapping these by itself now.
  * Port the user page from GtkTable to GtkGrid, so that we get sensible
    height-for-width geometry management (LP: #830933).
  * Internationalise hostname and username validation errors (LP: #784825).

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Have two separate failsafe attempts for 'fbdev' and 'vesa'.  It's
    possible that /dev/fb0 will exist but be backed by a VGA framebuffer
    causing X to exit non-zero.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Use the Xubuntu wallpaper when available. (LP: #936572)
  * Detect bogus DNS servers and ignore them. (LP: #760884)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.122ubuntu5, choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu4.
 -- Stephane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>   Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:09:02 -0500

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii'
  codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Happening while trying to install ubuntu whit desktop shortcut.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Wed Feb  8 00:36:27 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
  ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: '/proc/13024/environ'
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Title: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 170, in geoname_cb
       (text, message.status_code, message.reason_phrase))
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups:

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