Created attachment 992941 [details] Patch to fix the issue in /usr/sbin/yum-cron I installed the system with my language locale settings (LANG=cs_CZ.utf8). Sometimes, yum-cron-hourly emits this traceback to my email box: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 711, in <module> main() File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 708, in main base.updatesCheck() File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 631, in updatesCheck self.installUpdates(self.opts.update_messages) File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 582, in installUpdates self.emitMessages() File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 694, in emitMessages map(lambda x: x.sendMessages(), self.emitters) File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 694, in <lambda> map(lambda x: x.sendMessages(), self.emitters) File "/usr/sbin/yum-cron", line 227, in sendMessages msg = MIMEText(''.join(self.output)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/email/mime/text.py", line 30, in __init__ self.set_payload(_text, _charset) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/email/message.py", line 226, in set_payload self.set_charset(charset) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/email/message.py", line 262, in set_charset self._payload = self._payload.encode(charset.output_charset) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 199-200: ordinal not in range(128) Steps to Reproduce: Set global locale other to English: # cat /etc/locale.conf LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8" Set your locale for current session to the same: export $(cat /etc/locale.conf) Run this: /usr/sbin/yum-cron /etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf Patch is attached, see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7675
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Why is this one closed? It's not about Fedora, it's about CentOS 7 and so finally for RHEL 7, which still has this bug!
See proposed fix at bug #1202680