Bug 1329734

Summary: utf8 characters in servers, routers, networks, etc cause issues with CLI being piped or redirected to a file
Product: [Community] RDO Reporter: Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz>
Component: openstack-neutronAssignee: lpeer <lpeer>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Ofer Blaut <oblaut>
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Last Closed: 2016-05-19 15:47:46 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kambiz Aghaiepour 2016-04-22 18:56:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

Frequently we see commands such as :

   nova list
or 
   neutron router-list

error out, if the output is piped or redirected to another program or output file.  The error will read:

'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1754-1766: ordinal not in range(128)

and not output is given.  If however the same exact command is not redirected or piped, it is displayed on the screen without any issues.  This appears to happen when some user has created a router, or a vm, with a special character in the name.

To capture the output we have resorted to a workaround of running the command in screen and then working with the output file.  e.g.

   screen -L -D -m neutron router-list

will capture the output in ~/screenlog.0

This is a cludgy workaround and I was hoping there is a more proper fix.

Kambiz

Sorry I don't know which component this fits into.  It's not specifically a neutron issue but likely some common library.
Comment 1 Chandan Kumar 2016-05-19 15:47:46 UTC 
This bug is against a Version which has reached End of Life.
If it's still present in supported release (http://releases.openstack.org), please update Version and reopen.