[Bug 1275976] Re: do-dist-upgrade fails. Fatal error.

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  do-dist-upgrade fails. Fatal error.

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

Bug description:
  root at axiom:~# do-release-upgrade
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
  For upgrade information, please visit:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife

  Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]                                           
  Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,142 kB]                                                  
  Fetched 1,142 kB in 6s (79.5 kB/s)                                             
  authenticate 'saucy.tar.gz' against 'saucy.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'saucy.tar.gz'

  Reading cache

  
  A fatal error occurred 

  Please report this as a bug and include the files 
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in 
  your report. The upgrade has aborted. 
  Your original sources.list was saved in 
  /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. 

  Traceback (most recent call last):

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

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

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

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

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

  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hnewsk/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", 
  line 246, in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check 
  for line in f.readlines(): 

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 296, in decode 
  (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) 

  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 
  18: invalid start byte

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