Bug 438818

Summary: f9beta installation reported exception 'UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 19'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: rawhide   
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Hardware: ppc64   
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-03-25 13:48:35 UTC
=Comment: #0=================================================
Mohammed Omar <mohd.omar.com> - 2008-03-25 02:37 EDT
---Problem description:-----
Anaconda of F9 Beta generated a Trace Back error message at last stage of
installation (the time of retrieving and installing the selected Packages). I
used NFS server as a source,with default partitioning,selected manual package
selection option.

--------log-------------
                                                                               
Welcome to Fedora for ppc
               ┌────────────┤ Exception Occurred ├─────────────┐                
               │                                               │                
               │ anaconda 11.4.0.55 exception report         ↑ │                
               │ Traceback (most recent call first):         ▮ │                
     ┌─────────│   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py",   ▒ │ ────────┐      
     │         │ line 160, in callback                       ▒ │         │      
     │         │     s += (hdr['summary'] or "")             ▒ │         │      
     │         │   File                                      ▒ │         │      
     │         │ "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__in  ▒ │         │      
     │         │ it__.py", line 763, in runTransaction       ▒ │         │      
     │         │     errors = self.ts.run(cb.callback, '')   ▒ │         │      
     │         │   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py",   ▒ │         │      
     │         │ line 698, in _run                           ▒ │         │      
     │         │     self.runTransaction(cb=cb)              ↓ │         │      
     │         │                                               │         │      
     │         │    ┌────┐        ┌──────┐       ┌───────┐     │         │      
     └─────────│    │ OK │        │ Save │       │ Debug │     │ ────────┘      
               │    └────┘        └──────┘       └───────┘     │                
               │                                               │                
               │                                               │                
               └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘                


--Hardware Environment---
    Machine type (p650, x235, SF2, etc.): P550  (LPAR based)
    Cpu type (Power4, Power5, IA-64, etc.): Power5
   

---Is this reproducible?--
Yes

---Describe the steps:--

    Step1: Boot p550 with ppc64.img netboot image
    Step2: give nfs server path for installation,with default partitioning
           and manual package selection.
    Step3: Encounters the problem while retrieving and installing the packages.  

--Additional information:--
Attaching the complete log in next comment.
=Comment: #1=================================================
Mohammed Omar <mohd.omar.com> - 2008-03-25 02:39 EDT

anaconda dump log

=Comment: #2=================================================
Mohammed Omar <mohd.omar.com> - 2008-03-25 02:49 EDT

ppc64.img netboot log

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2008-03-25 13:48:38 UTC
Created attachment 299023 [details]
ppc64.img netboot log

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2008-03-25 13:48:41 UTC
Created attachment 299024 [details]
anaconda dump log

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-25 14:02:48 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 437993 ***