[Bug 1244916] Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position

[Brian Murray]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1069019 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069019

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1069019
   [software-properties-gtk] can not delete, enable or modify any software source with non-ASCII characters in the comment

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Title:
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Upgrading from saucy to trusty, using "do-release-upgrade -d" I get
  this errors with the locale es_ES.UTF-8. Changing the locale to C or
  english it works.

  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", 
  line 1791, in run 
  return self.fullUpgrade() 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", 
  line 1686, in fullUpgrade 
  if not self.updateSourcesList(): 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", 
  line 760, in updateSourcesList 
  if not self.rewriteSourcesList(mirror_check=True): 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", 
  line 736, in rewriteSourcesList 
  logging.debug("entry '%s' was disabled (unknown mirror)" % 
  get_string_with_no_auth_from_source_entry(entry)) 

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/utils.py", line 
  89, in get_string_with_no_auth_from_source_entry 
  return str(tmp) 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/sourceslist.py", 
  line 231, in __str__ 
  return self.str().strip() 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7f54ti/DistUpgrade/sourceslist.py", 
  line 253, in str 
  line += " #"+self.comment 

  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
  33: ordinal not in range(128) 
  === Command detached from window (Thu Oct 24 09:19:28 2013) ===
  === Command terminated with exit status 1 (Thu Oct 24 09:19:28 2013) ===

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Thu Oct 24 09:19:49 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-03 (262 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-24 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
   Log time: 2013-10-24 09:19:06.565726
   Log time: 2013-10-24 09:19:19.269817

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