Description of problem: Installing F28/x86_64/MATE from kickstart, anaconda crashes (with message as below) when there are non-ascii characters in kickstart file, at least on places: - --gecos item in user/root directive - somewhere in comment line Error from syslog (similar is displayed on screen): org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss:ERROR:pydbus.registration:Exception while handling org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss.Anaconda.SplitKickstart() org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss:Traceback (most recent call last): org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pydbus/registration.py", line 82, in call_method org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: result = method(*parameters, **kwargs) org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/boss/boss_interface.py", line 67, in SplitKickstart org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: self.implementation.split_kickstart(path) org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/boss/boss.py", line 117, in split_kickstart org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: self._kickstart_manager.split(path) org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/boss/kickstart_manager/kickstart_manager.py", line 71, in split org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: result = ksparser.split(path) org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/boss/kickstart_manager/parser.py", line 134, in split org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: kickstart = f.read() org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss: return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Boss:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 778: ordinal not in range(128) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 28.22.10-1.fc28 Additional info: - In my case this occur when I was using UTF-8 chars belonging to ISO8859-2 charset (accented ascii, e.g. 'user --name=pdwfh --gecos="Řóňěžíč Šúďíš"') - this error was not in previous Fedora releases (at least in F25 - F27)
Hello Frantisek, Could you please provide us logs from the failed installation as plain text files? You can find them in /tmp . Thank you.
Heloo Jiri, I have exactly the same problem.
Created attachment 1436811 [details] /tmp/*.log
Thanks for the logs Yuriy. We will look into this issue.
For some unknown case I cannot add attachment. But in my case, position 778 is position (decimal; 778==0x30A) from beginning of kickstart file, "codec can't decode byte 0xc5" - at this position was (in comment line) character "ř" (0xC5 0x99 in UTF-8), and it was first occurence of non-ascii char in ks
Fixed in a pull request: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1484
*** Bug 1585073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1608330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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