Bug 1430269

Summary: [abrt] dnf: codecs.py:321:decode:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 1: invalid start byte
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robin Lee <robinlee.sysu>
Component: dnfAssignee: rpm-software-management
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: packaging-team-maint, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Hardware: x86_64   
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URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/af0717ea878a1dd71509c9512a6316881de6bfda
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File: _var_log_dnf.log
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File: backtrace
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File: environ
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File: dnf-makecache.log none

Description Robin Lee 2017-03-08 09:11:47 UTC
Description of problem:
running sudo dnf remove \*VirtualBox\*

Version-Release number of selected component:
dnf-1.1.10-4.fc24

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python3 /bin/dnf remove *VirtualBox*
executable:     /bin/dnf
kernel:         4.9.6-100.fc24.x86_64
pkg_fingerprint: 73BD E983 81B4 6521
pkg_vendor:     Fedora Project
runlevel:       N 5
type:           Python3
uid:            0

Truncated backtrace:
codecs.py:321:decode:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 1: invalid start byte

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module>
    main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 174, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 60, in main
    return _main(base, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 120, in _main
    ret = resolving(cli, base)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 139, in resolving
    base.resolve(cli.demands.allow_erasing)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 522, in resolve
    goal.push_userinstalled(self.sack.query().installed(), self._yumdb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/goal.py", line 55, in push_userinstalled
    reason = getattr(yumdb_info, 'reason', 'user')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/yum/rpmsack.py", line 305, in __getattr__
    return self._read(attr)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/yum/rpmsack.py", line 280, in _read
    value = fo.read()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 1: invalid start byte

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <encodings.utf_8.IncrementalDecoder object at 0x7f909fb1a128>
data: b'H\x85\xedt\x17\xe8\xae'
input: b'H\x85\xedt\x17\xe8\xae'
final: True

Comment 1 Robin Lee 2017-03-08 09:12:37 UTC
Created attachment 1261155 [details]
File: _var_log_dnf.log

Comment 2 Robin Lee 2017-03-08 09:12:39 UTC
Created attachment 1261156 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 3 Robin Lee 2017-03-08 09:12:41 UTC
Created attachment 1261157 [details]
File: environ

Comment 4 Robin Lee 2017-03-08 09:13:40 UTC
Created attachment 1261158 [details]
File: dnf-makecache.log

Comment 5 Honza Silhan 2017-03-13 15:39:14 UTC
Thanks for the report. You may have probably corrupted file system or the value of dnfdb was changed externally. The issue will be addressed in bug 1167239. As a temporary workaround I would suggest to remove the corrupted file in dnfdb.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1167239 ***