[Bug 973317] Re: kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade crashes on German Kubuntu when starting the upgrade from Oneiric

[Marc Cheng]

don't know if this ist really about update-manager, because update
manager isn't installed on my system at all. (and if i install kubuntu-
desktop, the update-manager is not part of the packages that will be
installed.)

kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade

asks for the password and tells that is will do an

do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f kde -d


if i do an sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f kde -d by hand it tells me that there is no new release found, sadly.

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Title:
  kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade crashes on German Kubuntu when starting
  the upgrade from Oneiric

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

Bug description:
  I'm on Kubuntu Oneiric with German set as language in my KDE profile.

  When I try to call kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade from the command
  line, I immediately get a crash:

  klee at gonzales:~$ kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 77, in <module>
      print _("Checking for a new ubuntu release")
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode 
  character u'\xfc' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

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