Bug 976512

Summary: PackageKit-yum does not handle utf-8 searches: Error Type: Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sindre <sindre.w>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: jonathan, ltinkl, rdieter, rhughes, smparrish
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Description Sindre 2013-06-20 17:34:49 UTC
Description of problem:
When searching for packages Apper won't handle UTF-8 searches.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
PackageKit-0.8.9-5.fc19.x86_64
apper-0.8.1-0.3.20130511.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Apper
2. Search for "Bokmål" (A variant of Norwegian)

Actual results:
Got Error from yum python backend

Expected results:
Find l1{0,8}n packages related to Norwegian

Additional info:
Backtrace:
Error Type: Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3587, in main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3584, in main backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 673, in dispatch_command self.search_name(filters, values) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 466, in search_name self._do_search(searchlist, filters, values) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 413, in _do_search self._do_meta_package_search(filters, values) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 391, in _do_meta_package_search if value in grpid:

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2013-06-20 17:38:40 UTC
Same problem just using pkcon:

$ pkcon search name "Bokmål"
Searching by name             [=========================]         
Waiting in queue              [=========================]         
Starting                      [=========================]         
Querying                      [=========================]         
Fatal error: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3587, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3584, in main
    backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 673, in dispatch_command
    self.search_name(filters, values)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 466, in search_name
    self._do_search(searchlist, filters, values)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 413, in _do_search
    self._do_meta_package_search(filters, values)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 391, in _do_meta_package_search
    if value in grpid:

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