As one test I changed the Regional Format to "English (Denmark)" so that numbers are 1.234.567,89 and then upgraded to yakkety using DistUpgradeViewGtk3. I did not encounter a crash.
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ env | grep LC_ LC_PAPER=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_DK.UTF-8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python-apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633219 Title: Upgrade to yakkety fails due to non-us locale Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Upgrade to yakkety failed during updates installation. The do-release- upgrade window froze and there was a stacktrace in the terminal: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/yakkety", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 242, in main if app.run(): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1880, in run return self.fullUpgrade() File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1845, in fullUpgrade if not self.doDistUpgrade(): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1183, in doDistUpgrade res = self.cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 267, in commit apt.Cache.commit(self, fprogress, iprogress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 515, in commit res = self.install_archives(pm, install_progress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 479, in install_archives res = install_progress.run(pm) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py", line 234, in run res = os.WEXITSTATUS(self.wait_child()) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line 339, in wait_child self.update_interface() File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line 346, in update_interface InstallProgress.update_interface(self) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line 255, in update_interface if float(percent) != self.percent or status_str != self.status: ValueError: could not convert string to float: '0,0000' Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 497, in add_to_existing self.write(f) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 450, in write block = f.read(1048576) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/yakkety", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 242, in main if app.run(): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1880, in run return self.fullUpgrade() File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1845, in fullUpgrade if not self.doDistUpgrade(): File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1183, in doDistUpgrade res = self.cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 267, in commit apt.Cache.commit(self, fprogress, iprogress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 515, in commit res = self.install_archives(pm, install_progress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 479, in install_archives res = install_progress.run(pm) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py", line 234, in run res = os.WEXITSTATUS(self.wait_child()) File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line 339, in wait_child self.update_interface() File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-tqyb12c_/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line 346, in update_interface InstallProgress.update_interface(self) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line 255, in update_interface if float(percent) != self.percent or status_str != self.status: ValueError: could not convert string to float: '0,0000' It seems, that it's because release-upgrader incorrectly works with locale: Russian locale uses "," as a floating point separator, rather than ".", so it generates the "0,0000" somewhere and cannot parse it afterwards. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.17 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-43.63-generic 4.4.21 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-43-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Oct 13 23:54:25 2016 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: release-upgrade UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-13 (0 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: modified.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2016-10-13T22:47:25.822710 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/1633219/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
