Description of problem: I ran 'pkcon get-updates', and got an error. % pkcon get-updates 更新の取得中 [=========================] キューで待機中 [=========================] 開始中 [=========================] 重大なエラー: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 168-173: 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 610, in dispatch_command self.get_updates(filters) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2687, in get_updates self._check_init() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3115, in _check_init repo.repoXML File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1666, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1662, in _getRepoXML self._loadRepoXML(text=self.ui_id) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1653, in _loadRepoXML return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, self._mdpolicy2mdtypes()) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1627, in _groupLoadRepoXML if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text): File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1447, in _commonLoadRepoXML if self._latestRepoXML(local): File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1425, in _latestRepoXML repomd = self.metalink_data.repomd File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 910, in <lambda> metalink_data = property(fget=lambda self: self._getMetalink(), File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 892, in _getMetalink print "Could not get metalink $s error was\n$s: $s" $ (url, e.args[0], misc.to_unicode(e.args[1])) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-0.8.9-6.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Tried, but couldn't reproduce it. Additional info: My LANG is ja_JP.utf8.
I've fixed a load of unicode bugs in the last 2 releases. Can you repoen if this happens again please. Thanks.