Hi, I just ran into this issue and Google led me to debian bug #708252. The problem likely was with a video file whose file name contained an Umlaut (ö).
I sudoedit-ed the patch[0] into my iotop installation to test it. The result didn't look pretty: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 137: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/iotop", line 17, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 616, in main main_loop() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 606, in <lambda> main_loop = lambda: run_iotop(options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 504, in run_iotop return curses.wrapper(run_iotop_window, options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 497, in run_iotop_window ui.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 155, in run self.process_list.duration) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 477, in refresh_display print_line(lines[i].encode('utf-8')) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 473, in print_line self.win.addstr(i + len(summary) + 1, 0, lines[i]) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 137: ordinal not in range(128) Notice that there is a new call to print_line() from line 477. So this caught the original UnicodeEncodeError and the print_line(lines[i].encode('utf-8')) then caused the same error again. Since there doesn't seem to be an easy test case for this yet, the following triggers this problem reliably for me: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=öäü߀ Cheers, Uli [0]: http://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git/commitdiff/b3a739757b0c6246514e6ebc9bc02961bfa9ad15 -- Bruce Schneier can read and understand Perl programs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org