[Bug 1241148] Re: do-release-upgrade crashes while updating from 13.04 to 13.10 when locale is ru-RU.UTF8

[Ferry Toth]

I get the following (below). It is strange because I allready upgraded 3
machines with same locale (NL).

ferry at eeepc:~$ do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f DistUpgradeViewKDE -d
Er wordt gecontroleerd of er een nieuwe Ubuntu-uitgave is
Get:1 Handtekening opwaardeerprogramma [198 B]                                                                              
Get:2 Opwaardeerprogramma [1140 kB]                                                                                         
Fetched 1140 kB in 6s (147 kB/s)                                                                                            
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 152, in <module>
    fetcher.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 281, in run
    if not self.authenticate():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 77, in authenticate
    'signature': os.path.basename(sig)})
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xeb' in position 47: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade crashes while updating from 13.04 to 13.10 when
  locale is ru-RU.UTF8

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

Bug description:
  Application crashes with the following stacktrace:

  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 107, in _handleException
      "\n".join(lines))
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 141, in error


      print(twrap(summary))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8: ordinal not in range(128)

  Original exception was:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/saucy", line 10, in <module>
      sys.exit(main())
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 230, in main
      app = DistUpgradeController(view, options, datadir=options.datadir)
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 126, in __init__
      self._view.updateStatus(_("Reading cache"))
    File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-6agiri/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 121, in updateStatus
      print(msg)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)

  When I start do-release-upgrade with LC_ALL=C all works fine.

  My locale is:

  LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=
  LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=

  LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core:
    Installed: 1:0.205
    Candidate: 1:0.205
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.205 0
          500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  (Sorry, I've already upgraded system when upgrader started with LC_ALL=C.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Thu Oct 17 22:38:30 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-25 (114 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: command ['pkexec', 'cat', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'] failed with exit code 127: pkexec must be setuid root

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