Bug 744029

Summary: anaconda crashes in gettext.py with UnicodeEncodeError character u'\xfc'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: akozumpl, anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Thomas Meyer 2011-10-06 19:13:38 UTC
Description of problem:
I downloaded the Fedora 16 install/upgrade dvd and copied it to an usbstick with the livecd-iso-to-disk tool and tried to upgrade my system. but anaconda fails with the error "UnicodeEncodeError character u'\xfc'" in the program gettext.py

Comment 1 Thomas Meyer 2011-10-06 19:14:22 UTC
Created attachment 526778 [details]
screen shot of the crash

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-10-06 19:32:28 UTC
Please attach /tmp/anaconda-tb-* to this bug report.

Comment 3 Thomas Meyer 2011-10-06 19:52:34 UTC
Created attachment 526785 [details]
anaconda crash report

Comment 4 Thomas Meyer 2011-10-08 13:40:40 UTC
this is maybe the same error as described in the Common F16 bugs document. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731356 . Sorry for the noise. after the removing the LANG= from the extlinux command lines, the installation did finish correctly. but there seems to be a problem with the graphical installer when using a dual screen setup. shall I create a new bug for this problem?

Comment 5 Ales Kozumplik 2011-10-10 13:18:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> this is maybe the same error as described in the Common F16 bugs document. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731356 . 

You are right, this log line confirms it:

19:38:33,304 ERR loader: unable to set to requested language de_DE.utf8

For the dual screen problem see bug 725219.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 731356 ***