Bug 855469

Summary: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 394: ordinal not in range(128)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andre Robatino <robatino>
Component: fedora-easy-karmaAssignee: Till Maas <opensource>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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gzipped output of "strace -f -o strace.txt fedora-easy-karma --fas-username=robatino"
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output of "fedora-easy-karma --fas-username=robatino --list-rpms-only"
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bodhi-cache-F18.cpickle none

Description Andre Robatino 2012-09-07 21:54:39 UTC
Description of problem:
While using fedora-easy-karma, the following output occurred. Following the crash, abrt offered to report the problem but was then unable to do so.

(snip)

ignored: liboauth-0.9.7-1.fc18
ignored: libosinfo-0.2.0-1.fc18
================================================================================
     libpipeline-1.2.1-2.fc18
================================================================================
  Update ID: FEDORA-2012-13498
    Release: Fedora 18
     Status: testing
       Type: enhancement
      Karma: 0
      Notes: Enabled test suite at the build time, cleaned .spec file.
  Submitter: pschiffe
  Submitted: 2012-09-06 17:12:58
   Comments: bodhi - 2012-09-06 17:13:03 (karma 0)
             This update has been submitted for testing by pschiffe.
             autoqa - 2012-09-06 17:45:26 (karma 0)
             AutoQA: depcheck test PASSED on i386. Result log:
             http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/report/desx (results are
             informative only)
             autoqa - 2012-09-06 17:45:46 (karma 0)
             AutoQA: depcheck test PASSED on x86_64. Result log:
             http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/report/det5 (results are
             informative only)
             bodhi - 2012-09-07 17:58:27 (karma 0)
             This update is currently being pushed to the Fedora 18 testing
             updates repository.
             bodhi - 2012-09-07 19:33:55 (karma 0)
             This update has been pushed to testing

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F18/FEDORA-2012-13498

 inst. RPMS: libpipeline-1.2.1-2.fc18.x86_64 - A pipeline manipulation library (installed 0 days ago)

Comment? -1/0/1 -> karma, 'i' -> ignore, other -> skip> i
ignored as requested
ignored: abrt-2.0.12-1.fc18,libreport-2.0.13-1.fc18
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fedora-easy-karma", line 510, in <module>
    FedoraEasyKarma()
  File "/usr/bin/fedora-easy-karma", line 382, in __init__
    print FEK_helper.bodhi_update_str(update, bodhi_base_url=bc.base_url, width=self.options.wrap_width, wrap_bugs=self.options.wrap_bugs)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 394: ordinal not in range(128)
[andre@localhost ~]$

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fedora-easy-karma-0-0.16.20110825git36efb338.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:
Always get the traceback right after the libpipeline update. It's presumably caused by whatever's after that, but I don't know what that is.

Comment 1 Andre Robatino 2012-09-08 23:25:56 UTC
Same error after the same package with the latest batch of F18 updates. When trying to use abrt to report the error, it says "Processing failed." and the log says

--- Running report_uReport ---
Unexpected HTTP status code: 400
(exited with 1)

Comment 2 Andre Robatino 2012-09-10 17:19:33 UTC
Created attachment 611509 [details]
gzipped output of "strace -f -o strace.txt fedora-easy-karma --fas-username=robatino"

Comment 3 Andre Robatino 2012-09-10 17:20:56 UTC
Created attachment 611511 [details]
output of "fedora-easy-karma --fas-username=robatino --list-rpms-only"

Comment 4 Andre Robatino 2012-09-16 18:05:15 UTC
After the latest updates-testing push, this problem is gone. Maybe the package responsible was pushed to stable? Hopefully the above logs will help in tracking down the problem.

Comment 5 Andre Robatino 2012-10-09 15:54:21 UTC
Now seeing a similar error on a freshly installed F18 VM:

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F18/FEDORA-2012-15022

 inst. RPMS: setroubleshoot-plugins-3.0.45-1.fc18.noarch - Analysis plugins for use with setroubleshoot (installed 0 days ago)

Comment? -1/0/1 -> karma, 'i' -> ignore, other -> skip> i
ignored as requested
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fedora-easy-karma", line 510, in <module>
    FedoraEasyKarma()
  File "/usr/bin/fedora-easy-karma", line 382, in __init__
    print FEK_helper.bodhi_update_str(update, bodhi_base_url=bc.base_url, width=self.options.wrap_width, wrap_bugs=self.options.wrap_bugs)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 773: ordinal not in range(128)
[andre@localhost ~]$

Comment 6 Till Maas 2012-10-09 16:08:11 UTC
Sorry for the long delay. Can you please run 
fedora-easy-karma --bodhi-update-cache
and provide the file ~/.fedora-easy-karma/bodhi-cache-F18.cpickle?

Comment 7 Andre Robatino 2012-10-09 16:53:45 UTC
Created attachment 624195 [details]
bodhi-cache-F18.cpickle

When I ran the command as indicated, the error no longer happened. When this happened, I hit 'i' to ignore the update, before realizing it would have been good to check if the --bodhi-update-cache argument had something to do with it. So I can't reproduce the error at all now, sorry. Anyway, here's the file in case there's anything useful in it.

Comment 8 Till Maas 2012-10-09 17:05:44 UTC
You can delete/move away ~/.fedora-easy-karma/ignore.cpickle to unignore updates.

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