[Bug 1614576] Re: Upgrade from xenial to yakkety fails due to a UnicodeDecodeError

[Brian Murray]

I followed the test case and upgraded from Trusty to Xenial without an
issue.

2016-11-14 11:16:21,125 INFO release-upgrader version '16.04.18' started
2016-11-14 11:16:21,141 INFO locale: 'en_US' 'UTF-8'
2016-11-14 11:16:21,188 DEBUG setting up environ for non-interactive use
...
2016-11-14 11:39:55,996 DEBUG quirks: running PostCleanup
2016-11-14 11:39:55,996 DEBUG running Quirks.PostCleanup
2016-11-14 11:39:55,996 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
2016-11-14 11:39:56,011 DEBUG confirmRestart() called


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Title:
  Upgrade from xenial to yakkety fails due to a UnicodeDecodeError

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Test Case
  ---------
  1) Install the package shim-signed on an Ubuntu 14.04 system
  2) Run do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive
  3) Observe the following Traceback:

  Setting up shim-signed (1.18~16.04.1+0.8-0ubuntu2) ...
  find: Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
      from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
      from apport.report import Report
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 15, in <module>
      import xml.dom, xml.dom.minidom
  ImportError: No module named 'xml.dom'

  With the version of ubuntu-release-upgrader from -proposed you will
  not encounter the Traceback.

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  The change modifies the code so that errors are ignored when decoding output, so some messages may be less readable.  However, this is better than having the release upgrader crash and the upgrade fail.

  Original Description
  --------------------
  When doing an automated upgrade from xenial to yakkey, I get:
  Preparing to unpack .../policykit-1_0.105-16_amd64.deb ...
  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/polkitd.service auto-upgrade [10:48:43]: ERROR: ERROR: Something went wrong with the upgrade.

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: policykit-1 0.105-16
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 18 11:02:06 2016
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: policykit-1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-08-18 (0 days ago)

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