ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in preseed(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #831309 reported by Stéphane Graber
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

Crashed when installing with "Stéphane Graber".

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.7.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.279
Date: Mon Aug 22 10:28:13 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110822)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity -d
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/4269/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '-d']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in preseed(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

Revision history for this message
Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :
visibility: private → public
Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10-beta-1
status: New → Confirmed
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.7.18

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ubiquity (2.7.18) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Properly handle unicode around the hostname (LP: #831309).
  * Properly handle unicode around the timezone entry box (LP: #831533).
  * Properly handle unicode in the question dialog (LP: #831419).
  * Disable the background setting code for beta 1.
  * Wait forever for jockey to shutdown (LP: #653571).
  * Bump indicators to v6 (LP: #819979).
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:56:37 +0100

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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