The problem is not with update-manager, but with kdesudo (oneiric)! /usr/bin/kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade just executes kdesudo "do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f kde -d"
Calling just "do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f kde -d" works fine, and you see the first console output line with a german umlaut. Run with kdesudo, kdesudo has to read that output from do-release- upgrade and echo it to the console. That fails. This reasoning can be proved by doing a simple experiment (all in an environment with LANG=de_DE.UTF8) $echo 'print u"Gl\xfcck"' > tmp.py $python tmp.py # OK Glück $kdesudo python tmp.py # fails with UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) @Brian: what is the best way to proceed? - reassign this bug to kdesudo? With updated bug description? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980020 Title: kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade fails when LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/980020/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
