Bug 527393

Summary: UnicodeDecodeError on "Could not retrieve mirrorlist %s error was\n%s"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pekka Järveläinen <pj>
Component: yumAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: eloycasinarturi, ffesti, james.antill, katzj, maxamillion, pmatilai, thomasj, tim.lauridsen, tzine3
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Last Closed: 2009-10-06 10:06:27 UTC Type: ---
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Description Pekka Järveläinen 2009-10-06 08:15:18 UTC 
Created attachment 363793 [details]
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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #452310 +++

Description of problem: When make an "yum update" a problem appears


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch


How reproducible:
yum update

Steps to Reproduce:
1.yum update

  
Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 116, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 307, in doCommands
    self._getTs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs
    self._getTsInfo()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 105, in _getTsInfo
    self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 578, in <lambda>
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 421, in _getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 245, in populateSack
    sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 149, in populate
    if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 203, in
_check_db_version
    return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 935, in
_check_db_version
    repoXML = self.repoXML
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1093, in <lambda>
    repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1085, in _getRepoXML
    self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1075, in _loadRepoXML
    return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, ["primary"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1059, in
_groupLoadRepoXML
    if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 911, in
_commonLoadRepoXML
    result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 779, in
_getFileRepoXML
    cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 650, in _getFile
    result = self.grab.urlgrab(misc.to_utf8(relative), local,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 463, in <lambda>
    grab = property(lambda self: self._getgrab())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 458, in _getgrab
    self._setupGrab()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 447, in _setupGrab
    self._grab = mgclass(self._grabfunc, self.urls,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 555, in <lambda>
    urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 552, in _geturls
    self._baseurlSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 510, in _baseurlSetup
    mirrorurls.extend(self._getMirrorList())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1268, in
_getMirrorList
    print "Could not retrieve mirrorlist %s error was\n%s" % (url, e)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.py", line 303, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 204:
ordinal not in range(128)

Expected results:


Additional info:

--- Additional comment from james.antill on 2008-08-07 15:35:48 EDT ---

 What locale are you running in?

--- Additional comment from tzine3 on 2008-09-15 10:18:23 EDT ---

I see the same issue:
Linux 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
yum-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-protectbase-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-updatesd-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-security-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-updateonboot-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6
yum-kmod-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-versionlock-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5
yum-skip-broken-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-changelog-1.0.4-3.el5

English local with others installed:
kde-i18n-Bengali-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Russian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Romanian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Bulgarian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Norwegian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Icelandic-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Catalan-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Estonian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Dutch-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Hungarian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Lithuanian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Italian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Polish-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Slovenian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Tamil-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Japanese-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Brazil-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Hindi-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Serbian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Czech-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Hebrew-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Norwegian-Nynorsk-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Punjabi-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-British-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Slovak-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Portuguese-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Greek-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Swedish-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Danish-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-German-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Arabic-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Turkish-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Korean-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Finnish-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Ukrainian-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Chinese-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-French-3.5.4-1
kde-i18n-Spanish-3.5.4-1

--- Additional comment from tzine3 on 2008-09-19 10:01:06 EDT ---

downgrading to 3.2.14-10 from 3.2.19-3 on yum 
and following the dependencies got yum back.

--- Additional comment from svidal on 2008-11-07 15:19:41 EDT ---

Please try to replicate this on yum 3.2.20 from here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=68060

if it still happens, please repopen this bug
thanks
Comment 1 Pekka Järveläinen 2009-10-06 08:17:27 UTC 
firefox 3.5.3 running java applet crashed same time
Comment 2 Pekka Järveläinen 2009-10-06 08:42:16 UTC 
and my yum is up to date
yum-3.2.24-2.fc11.noarch
Comment 3 Pekka Järveläinen 2009-10-06 08:50:22 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> firefox 3.5.3 running java applet crashed same time  

Propably nothing to do with this bug because it's repeating all the time:
the popup about internal error appear again.
Comment 4 Thomas Janssen 2009-10-06 10:06:27 UTC 
This one seems to be a dupe of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508422

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508422 ***