ERROR: Sorry about that.

[triplesixman]

Checklist

• [ *] I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• [ *] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
• [ *] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [* ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [* ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• [* ] I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

XX~/test# youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3O1Xro7oAI --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3O1Xro7oAI', u'--verbose']
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out ANSI_X3.4-1968, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-9-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.9
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] s3O1Xro7oAI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] s3O1Xro7oAI: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: Sorry about that.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2108, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(error_message, expected=True)
ExtractorError: Sorry about that.

Description

Hello, when I try to download a video with youtube-dl, I have this error since today.

[Hrxn]

WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.

[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out ANSI_X3.4-1968, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968

This looks.. wrong. Something or someone changed some system settings?

[AndrewMcSwain]

I'm getting the same unhelpful error on some publicly available videos.

[Lpsd]

I was getting the same, however I fixed it by using the --force-ipv4 option.

[genthruB]

the hell is happening with ydl???