Bug#670331: iotop: UnicodeEncodeError in ui.py

2012-06-02 Thread paul . szabo
I have installed the squeeze backports version 0.4.4-1~bpo60+1 since mid-May, and have not had any failures yet: seems that this version solves my problem. I guess this bug may be closed. Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics

Bug#670331: iotop: UnicodeEncodeError in ui.py

2012-05-15 Thread paul . szabo
Seems that my previously proposed patch is not sufficient. I had iotop running successfully for a few weeks, but then it died with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in main() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/iotop/ui.py", line 556, in main main_loop

Bug#670331: iotop: UnicodeEncodeError in ui.py

2012-04-25 Thread paul . szabo
Dear pabs, > Can you check if this happens with the version on backports? I could check that (and my proposed patch) if I could trigger the bug. I suppose that running grep -q "bad unicode" some.large.file or grep -q x "large.file.with.bad unicode.name" would do the trick, but I do not know h

Bug#670331: iotop: UnicodeEncodeError in ui.py

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 07:32 +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: > I often run iotop something like > > nohup iotop -o -P -k -t -qqq >iotop.log 2>&1 & > > but that sometimes fails and dies with: Can you check if this happens with the version on backports? http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/

Bug#670331: iotop: UnicodeEncodeError in ui.py

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Szabo
Package: iotop Version: 0.4-2+squeeze1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I often run iotop something like nohup iotop -o -P -k -t -qqq >iotop.log 2>&1 & but that sometimes fails and dies with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in main() File "/usr/lib/pym