Upgrade fail with "error 1"

[Pierre]

Hi,

The process fail at beginning with error "The process of upgrading the distribution has exited with code 1."

Any idea on what goes wrong?

Thank for help.

Pierre

[Spadge]

Look in /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log for clues as to what's broken. If you're still not sure, post the last few lines here and we will see if we can work something out.

[Pierre]

Thank Spadge for youre reply. I appreciate.

There is actually an error in the log. In my case, I must say that the distribution of language is French. I guess the error is related to language
Here, the text of Jounal.

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2012-10-23 21:43:41,481 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
2012-10-23 21:43:41,481 INFO uname information: 'Linux HPapa 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:29:15 UTC 2012 x86_64'
2012-10-23 21:43:41,481 INFO apt version: '0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.5'
2012-10-23 21:43:41,481 INFO release-upgrader version '0.190.2' started
2012-10-23 21:43:41,509 INFO screen could not be run
2012-10-23 21:43:41,571 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2012-10-23 21:43:41,600 DEBUG aufsOptionsAndEnvironmentSetup()
2012-10-23 21:43:41,601 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-rw-oqFI8c' as aufs_rw_dir
2012-10-23 21:43:41,601 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-chroot-v9Fg4K' as aufs chroot dir
2012-10-23 21:43:41,601 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2012-10-23 21:43:41,614 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
2012-10-23 21:43:43,813 ERROR not handled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/update-manager-7SYFvo/quantal", line 10, in <module>
sys.exit(main())

File "/tmp/update-manager-7SYFvo/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 240, in main
if app.run():

File "/tmp/update-manager-7SYFvo/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1764, in run
return self.fullUpgrade()

File "/tmp/update-manager-7SYFvo/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1613, in fullUpgrade
self._view.updateStatus(_("Checking package manager"))

File "/tmp/update-manager-7SYFvo/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 113, in updateStatus
print(msg)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

2012-10-23 21:43:43,814 DEBUG enabling apt cron job

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[Spadge]

Yes, it's caused by ascii not understanding "é".

Try running the update on the command line, using 'sudo upgrade-manager -d'

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1031882