http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/ARM%20Ubuntu%203.x/builds/143/steps/test/logs/stdio
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test test_curses crashed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 1214, in runtest_inner
    the_package = __import__(abstest, globals(), locals(), [])
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/test/test_curses.py", line 23, in <module>
    curses = import_module('curses')
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/test/support.py", line 105, in import_module
    return importlib.import_module(name)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/__init__.py", line 123, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 840, in _gcd_import
    loader.load_module(name)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 466, in load_module
    return self._load_module(fullname)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 170, in decorated
    return fxn(self, module, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 371, in _load_module
    exec(code_object, module.__dict__)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/curses/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from _curses import *
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 190, in inner
    return method(self, name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 126, in wrapper
    module = fxn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 139, in wrapper
    module = fxn(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py", line 574, in load_module
    return imp.load_dynamic(fullname, self._path)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 0: invalid start byte
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The locale encoding is UTF-8 (LANG=en_US.UTF-8), Python directory is /var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build.

Full header:
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make buildbottest TESTOPTS= TESTPYTHONOPTS= TESTTIMEOUT=3600
 in dir /var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build (timeout 3900 secs)
 watching logfiles {}
 argv: ['make', 'buildbottest', 'TESTOPTS=', 'TESTPYTHONOPTS=', 'TESTTIMEOUT=3600']
 environment:
  HOME=/var/lib/buildbot
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LOGNAME=buildbot
  MAIL=/var/mail/buildbot
  PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
  PWD=/var/lib/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.warsaw-ubuntu-arm/build
  SHELL=/bin/sh
  SPEECHD_PORT=6678
  TERM=linux
  USER=buildbot
  XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=559ce1e92f80d0de13b3936e4c1475f9-29.919136-1746652091
 closing stdin
 using PTY: False
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In Unicode, U+00B5 is µ (micro sign).

Add Barry, the owner of the buildbot, to the nosy list. Add Brett to the nosy, even if I don't think that the problem comes from the importlib.