command used:
locale > mirofail.log;./mythtv_git/mythtv/mythtv/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge.py >> mirofail.log 2>> mirofail.log


LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
2011-10-27 06:22:46,175 - mirobridge - INFO - Using python library 'pyparsing' version 1.5.2
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/MythTV/logging.py:138: DeprecationWarning: object.__new__() takes no parameters
  return super(MythLog, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
2011-10-27 06:22:47,644 - mirobridge - INFO - Miro Bridge version v0.6.8 with Miro version 3.0.3
2011-10-27 06:22:47,645 - mirobridge - INFO - Using mirobridge_interpreter_3_0_0
2011-10-27 06:22:47,685 - mirobridge - INFO - 
2011-10-27 06:22:47,691 - mirobridge - INFO - There was no mirobridge configuration file found (/home/ryan/.mythtv/mirobridge.conf)
2011-10-27 06:22:47,705 INFO     Starting up Miro
2011-10-27 06:22:47,705 INFO     Version:    3.0.3
2011-10-27 06:22:47,710 INFO     OS:         Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64
2011-10-27 06:22:47,711 INFO     Revision:   ssh://wguaraldi@git.participatoryculture.org:2191/var/git/miro - 51067950
2011-10-27 06:22:47,711 INFO     Builder:    uwe@limejuice
2011-10-27 06:22:47,712 INFO     Build Time: 1280600463.76
2011-10-27 06:22:47,712 INFO     Starting event loop thread
2011-10-27 06:22:47,713 INFO     Restoring database...
2011-10-27 06:22:47,714 INFO     Sqlite3 version:   3.7.3
2011-10-27 06:22:47,715 INFO     Pysqlite version:  2.4.1
2011-10-27 06:22:47,715 INFO     opening database /home/ryan/.miro/sqlitedb
2011-10-27 06:22:47,720 TIMING   Database upgrade time: 0.007
2011-10-27 06:22:47,730 INFO     setup tabs...
2011-10-27 06:22:47,734 INFO     setup theme...
2011-10-27 06:22:47,742 INFO     Checking movies directory '/home/ryan/.miro/Movies/'...
2011-10-27 06:22:47,756 INFO     Starting auto downloader...
2011-10-27 06:22:47,772 INFO     Starting video data updates
2011-10-27 06:23:22,793 INFO     updating http://feeds.gearlive.com/unboxinglive/mpeg
2011-10-27 06:23:22,796 WARNING  MessageHandler doesn't have a handle_search_complete method to handle the <class 'miro.messages.SearchComplete'> message
2011-10-27 06:23:47,807 INFO     No items downloading
2011-10-27 06:24:47,868 INFO     No items downloading
Startup success.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./mythtv_git/mythtv/mythtv/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge.py", line 2729, in <module>
    main()
  File "./mythtv_git/mythtv/mythtv/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge.py", line 2392, in main
    videostodelete = getOldrecordedOrphans()
  File "./mythtv_git/mythtv/mythtv/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge.py", line 1191, in getOldrecordedOrphans
    data[u'subtitle'], graphic_suffix[u'episodeimagedir'], u'png'))
  File "/home/ryan/mythtv_git/mythtv/mythtv/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge/metadata.py", line 228, in cleanupVideoAndGraphics
    if name.startswith(fileBaseName):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
2011-10-27 06:25:11,293 WARNING  Downloader Daemon died


I did a kill -9 on the downloader daemon then I did a kill -9 on mirobridge.py