Bug 493694

Summary: UnicodeDecodeException during install
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew McNabb <amcnabb>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Andrew McNabb 2009-04-02 17:31:58 UTC 
During the installation of Fedora 11 Beta, I got the following error messages in syslog.  It doesn't seem to be a particularly serious problem, but it's probably something that should be fixed.

Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: line = <6>usb 5-1: Produ
ct: Natural<AE> Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: 'utf8' codec can't decod
e byte 0xae in position 28: unexpected code byte
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy WARNING /usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py:1024: GtkWarning: gtk_t
ext_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed#012
  textbuf.insert(iter, line)
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: line = <6>input: Microso
ft Natural<AE> Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/
5-1/5-1:1.0/input/input3
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: 'utf8' codec can't decod
e byte 0xae in position 27: unexpected code byte
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: line = <6>microsoft 0003
:045E:00DB.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Natural<AE> Er
gonomic Keyboard 4000] on usb-0000:00:1a.2-1/input0
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: 'utf8' codec can't decod
e byte 0xae in position 90: unexpected code byte
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: line = <6>input: Microso
ft Natural<AE> Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/
5-1/5-1:1.1/input/input4
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: 'utf8' codec can't decod
e byte 0xae in position 27: unexpected code byte
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: line = <6>microsoft 0003
:045E:00DB.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Microsoft Natural<AE> Ergo
nomic Keyboard 4000] on usb-0000:00:1a.2-1/input1
Apr  1 09:42:57 prodigy ERROR   UnicodeDecodeException: 'utf8' codec can't decod
e byte 0xae in position 88: unexpected code byte
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-06-08 18:56:09 UTC 
True it probably should be fixed since it looks bad, but I don't see how we're ever going to make this one high enough priority to ever fix it.  I believe the bug should be limited to people whose hardware information strings include something like (R) or (C), which shouldn't really be all that many people.

If you have a patch we'll be happy to take a look at it.