Bug 161482
| Summary: | non-root users get unicode error on os.access | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrea Santilli <sacntct> |
| Component: | python | Assignee: | Mihai Ibanescu <mihai.ibanescu> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | katzj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-03-23 11:23:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I cannot seem to reproduce this, do you have an example? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: This is what I get while running os.access as non-root user: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnomeboyadvance", line 5, in ? gba = GnomeBoyAdvance() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnomeboyadvance/GnomeBoyAdvance.py", line 54, in __init__ self.mySettings = Settings.Settings() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnomeboyadvance/Settings.py", line 24, in __init__ if not self.__checkBinary(): self.tryFindBinary() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnomeboyadvance/Settings.py", line 32, in __checkBinary return os.access(bin, os.X_OK ) TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found This seems to be an old bug as reported in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051906.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run a program containing os.access as non-root user. Actual Results: I got an unicode error Additional info: