Description of problem: anaconda aborts with the following traceback on my Dell Inspiron 9400: File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 869, in <module> probeHW(opts, x_already_set, xserver) File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 456, in <module> xserver.probeHW(forceDriver=opts.xdriver) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhxpl/xserver.py", line 91, in probeHW cardstr = _("Probing for video card: %s") % (cardstr,) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) install exited abnormally [1/1] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.4.0.65-1.i386 rhpxl-1.2-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. install today rawhide tree with the mentioned package versions 2. GUI install, german, german-nodeadkeys Actual results: above traceback
It's not related to graphical vs. text mode install, it fails on both
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 441060 ***
Ajax, are you sure it's a duplicate? To me it looks like a similar issue in a different package. Bug 441060 was in system-config-display, while xserver.py is in rhpxl.
Nevermind, it's actually a dupe of bug 441105 and it's fixed in rhpxl-1.3-1.fc9.