Bug 473584

Can you run with a locale of en_US.UTF-8 so that the real error gets shown? Also, what config are you using?

I have the same problem, with a locale of en_US.UTF-8 and an i686 platform.

[creator:403] Extracting ISO to device
INFO:liveusb.creator:Extracting ISO to device
[creator:138] mount -o loop,ro /home/ced/Téléchargement/F10-i686-Live.iso /tmp/tmpPEb0JI
INFO:liveusb.creator:mount -o loop,ro /home/ced/Téléchargement/F10-i686-Live.iso /tmp/tmpPEb0JI
[creator:138] cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/LiveOS/squashfs.img '/media/LIVEUSB/LiveOS/squashfs.img'
INFO:liveusb.creator:cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/LiveOS/squashfs.img '/media/LIVEUSB/LiveOS/squashfs.img'
[creator:419] Copied at 2 MB/sec
INFO:liveusb.creator:Copied at 2 MB/sec
[creator:138] cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/LiveOS/osmin.img '/media/LIVEUSB/LiveOS/osmin.img'
INFO:liveusb.creator:cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/LiveOS/osmin.img '/media/LIVEUSB/LiveOS/osmin.img'
[creator:419] Copied at 681 MB/sec
INFO:liveusb.creator:Copied at 681 MB/sec
[creator:138] cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/isolinux/* '/media/LIVEUSB/isolinux'
INFO:liveusb.creator:cp /tmp/tmpPEb0JI/isolinux/* '/media/LIVEUSB/isolinux'
[creator:138] umount /tmp/tmpPEb0JI
INFO:liveusb.creator:umount /tmp/tmpPEb0JI
[creator:430] Installing bootloader
INFO:liveusb.creator:Installing bootloader
[creator:138] syslinux   -d /media/LIVEUSB/syslinux /dev/sdd1
INFO:liveusb.creator:syslinux   -d /media/LIVEUSB/syslinux /dev/sdd1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 185, in run
    self.live.install_bootloader()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 436, in install_bootloader
    os.path.join(self.dest, 'syslinux'), self.drive['device']))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 147, in popen
    self.write_log()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 235, in write_log
    out.write(self.output.getvalue())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have the same problem, with a locale of en_US.UTF-8 and an i686 platform.

This isn't the same problem as it's from liveusb-creator, not livecd-tools.

And I can't reproduce the initial reporter's problem even with some more trying today, so going to close.  If you have further information to add to the report, please reopen or add a new report

Reopening, because also happens to me and I think I know why:

[root@wicktop spin-kickstarts]# locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[root@wicktop spin-kickstarts]# livecd-creator -c fedora-livecd-xfce.ks 
...
Retrieving http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml ...OK
Retrieving http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/repodata/d27c9a03c3f5d016b1e6b6799b47150b82c4f44f90fa640cc3792328b6c878f3-primary.sqlite.bz2 ...OK
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 136, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 128, in main
    logging.error("Error creating Live CD : %s" % e)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

[root@wicktop spin-kickstarts]# LANG=C livecd-creator -c fedora-livecd-xfce.ks 
...
Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'drivel' : No package(s) available to install


Removing drivel from the ks fixes the error. So I think livecd-creator just fails to return a proper error message about the missing package with certain locales.

We had seen that one, but it was supposed ot have been fixed.  That said, all such cases should be fixed with a patch that's in livecd-tools-022 as it's pretty aggressive about ensure that the output of exceptions is "ok"

Confirmed.