Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 248078
"yum info all" fails.
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:58:38 EST
Description of problem: "yum info all" fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.type command: "yum info all" 2. 3. Actual results: [root@nidula ~]# yum info all >/tmp/gold Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 266, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 164, in doCommand base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 102, in listPkgs self.infoOutput(pkg) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 73, in infoOutput print _("Description:\n%s") % pkg.description.encode("UTF-8") UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 96: ordinal not in range(128) Expected results: No stderr output. Additional info: I suspect there is an error in the repo as the ultimate cause. still yum shouldn't crash.
May be due to the aterm pkg entries and perhaps others.
This was supposed to have been fixed by Bug 244080 in yum-3.2.1-1 , but I can confirm that it is still an issue: # rpm -q yum yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 # yum info cups.x86_64 Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "kernel-module" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 updates-debuginfo 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 fedora-debuginfo 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 moertel-community 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Installed Packages Name : cups Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version: 1.2.11 Release: 2.fc7 Size : 8.8 M Repo : installed Summary: Common Unix Printing System Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 266, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 164, in doCommand base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 102, in listPkgs self.infoOutput(pkg) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 73, in infoOutput print _("Description:\n%s") % pkg.description.encode("UTF-8") UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128)
Created attachment 159273 [details] Outline patch to /usr/share/yum-cli/output.py DISCLAIMER: I am not a habitual Python programmer and not an expert on its Unicode handling. The attached patch is quite possibly inefficient and may well introduce subtle new bugs. But: The attached patch to /usr/share/yum-cli/output.py does appear to resolve the issues, at least with the current repository information. That is # yum info all > /tmp/all.info runs without problems and the output looks reasonable from a quick scan (including looking at cups). Sorry if the diff is not in the right format etc., but I am new to this and it is only a short change.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245445 ***