[Bug 1221161] Re: I can't upgrade from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

[Brian Murray]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1212025 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212025

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1212025
   Upgrading to Saucy crashes with a unicode error

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Title:
  I can't upgrade from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii'
  codec can't encode character

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When i try to upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 I cant:
  do-release-upgrade -d

  I think is serious bug, not to be able to upgrade from 13.04 to
  13.10...


  felisuco at felisuco-E500-U-AP50B:~$ do-release-upgrade -d
  Comprobar si hay una nueva versión de Ubuntu
  Obtener:1 Firma de la herramienta de actualización [198 B]                                                                                                                               
  Obtener:2 Herramienta de actualización [1.203 kB]                                                                                                                                        
  Obtenidos 1.203 kB en 0seg. (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                      
  autentificar «saucy.tar.gz» contra «saucy.tar.gz.gpg» 
  extrayendo «saucy.tar.gz»

  Leyendo caché

  
  Ha ocurrido un error fatal 

  Informe de este fallo e incluya los archivos 
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log y /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log en el 
  informe. La actualización ha sido cancelada. 
  Su archivo sources.list original se guardó en 
  /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. 

  Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/saucy", line 10, in 
  <module> 
  sys.exit(main()) 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", 
  line 240, in main 
  save_system_state(logdir) 

  File 
  "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", 
  line 133, in save_system_state 
  scrub_sources=True) 

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", 
  line 149, in save_state 
  self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources) 

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", 
  line 241, in _write_state_sources_list 
  "./etc/apt/sources.list.d/"+source) 

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-00xuto/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", 
  line 252, in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check 
  source_copy.write(line) 

  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in 
  position 106: ordinal not in range(128)

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