P->Q - do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) in DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 143, in showInPager

The problem doesn't occur if I use C locales:
  sudo LANG=C do-release-upgrade

Thanks for your report. Confirmed with French instead of German.

Hello Florian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:0.190.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I tested this using the test case provided and received a crash when using the not proposed version of the dist-upgrader. After switching to the the -proposed version I no longer receive the crash and was able to view the details of the distribution upgrade.

Confirmed crash on non-proposed, and correct behaviour with the -proposed package. Tagging verification-done.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:0.190.2

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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:0.190.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * fix unicode releated crash in non-english locales (LP: #1068389)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:30:36 +0200

I've updated the meta-release file for quantal to point at quantal-updates now.

i confirm bug with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

Could you elaborate about how you encountered the bug? Also including your main.log file from /var/log/dist-upgrade/ would help us determine if this is not fixed or something else is wrong. Thanks in advance.

I jist run "do-release-upgrade" and wait until i see

Чтение временных файлов

Проверка менеджера пакетов

Продолжить работу через SSH?

Этот сеанс запущен через ssh. Не рекомендуется выполнять обновление
через ssh, так как в случае неудачи восстановление будет очень
сложным.

Если вы продолжите, дополнительная служба ssh будет запущена на порту
«1022».
Хотите ли вы продолжить?

Продолжить [дН]

and after that I enter letter "д" and it give me error:

Произошла критическая ошибка

Пожалуйста, сообщите об этой ошибке и включите файлы
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log и /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log в ваш
отчёт. Обновление было отменено.
Ваш оригинальный файл sources.list был сохранён в
/etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/quantal", line 10, in <module>
sys.exit(main())

File "/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py",
line 240, in main
if app.run():

File
"/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
line 1764, in run
return self.fullUpgrade()

File
"/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
line 1616, in fullUpgrade
if not self.prepare():

File
"/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
line 429, in prepare
self._sshMagic()

File
"/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
line 299, in _sshMagic
"Do you want to continue?") % port)

File "/tmp/update-manager-sw_elb/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py",
line 210, in askYesNoQuestion
if res.strip().lower().startswith(_("y")):

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position
0: ordinal not in range(128)
=== Command detached from window (Thu Oct 25 13:07:58 2012) ===
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Thu Oct 25 13:07:58 2012) ===

i have attached my main.log

Thanks for your response this is actually a different bug and I've opened bug 1071388 regarding it.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:0.191

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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:0.191) raring; urgency=low

  * support quantal->raring release upgrades
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:33:50 +0100

$ do-release-upgrade -V
do-release-upgrade: version 0.156.14.9
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS \n \l

$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
...
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

still gives error when pressing details on russian locale

@Vaulter - this is because you are using a version of the release upgrader without out the fix.

2013-09-15 11:49:29,977 INFO release-upgrader version '0.190.1' started

You should have version 0.190.5. Try removing '~/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-development' and running the upgrade again. If it fails again please provide your main.log file like you did before. Thanks!

Actually, the fix is in version 0.190.4.

This bug is there again with upgrading cosmic -> disco

$ do-release-upgrade --version
do-release-upgrade: version 18.10.11.6

@Thomas - please open a new bug report using 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader'. Thanks in advance.