I was also hit by this bug, and didn't find this one, so I made a duplicate. In that bug, I also said that I had posted a patch to the Debian upstream so that they could always return Unicode for size_to_str [0]. It is really the responsibility of the library.
[0] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750120> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #750120 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750120 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1172740 Title: Quantal->Raring: UnicodeDecodeError: in NotEnoughFreeSpaceError To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1172740/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs