An upgrade from fc6/x86_64 to fc7/x86_64 using a network install from a FTP server accessing a DVD image, in French aborted while upgrading the first package. Restarting the upgrade in English avoided the crash. Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 164, in callback self.instLog.write(self.modeText % (nvra,)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 562, in runTransaction errors = self.ts.run(cb.callback, '') File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 633, in _run self.runTransaction(cb=cb) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 608, in run self._run(instLog, cb, intf) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1244, in doInstall self.ayum.run(self.instLog, cb, anaconda.intf, anaconda.id) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 236, in doInstall anaconda.backend.doInstall(anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 203, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 605, in run anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 955, in <module> anaconda.intf.run(anaconda) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
Created attachment 156619 [details] A bzip2 compressed dump of anaconda
This should be fixed in the next build of anaconda.
I just tried to install fedora 9, Swedish. I got something similar, unfortunately I haven't been able to save the output. The problem occurs when it's checking the upgrade arch, f8 i386->f9 x86_64. I suspect it's an unsupported jump, but I still don't think the anaconda installer should try convert UTF-8 as ascii... The final line is: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
Right, should mention, position 17 in my complete name in the system is 'ΓΆ'. I'll try to change it temporarily to see how it goes. And probably open another bug for f9, as I doubt anyone will read this:p
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We need to see the entire traceback to have a shot at fixing this, not just the last line. As this is almost certainly happening in a different place than the original bug report, please open a new one. Thanks.