[Bug 1001335] Re: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

[Pavel Studeník]

I got similar traceback, when I tried update system to 13.10:

>> upgrade-manager -d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/saucy", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 240, in main
    save_system_state(logdir)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 133, in save_system_state
    scrub_sources=True)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 149, in save_state
    self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 241, in _write_state_sources_list
    "./etc/apt/sources.list.d/"+source)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-ttstdv/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'\xe1' in position 82: ordinal not in range(128)

or

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 108, in <module>
    print(_("Checking for a new Ubuntu release"))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xed' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-
  manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
  u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  error

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager-core 1:0.152.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri May 18 13:29:04 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release -q
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release', '-q']
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release", line 109, in <module>
       print _("New release '%s' available.") % m.new_dist.version
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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