Description of problem: virt-install does not seem to work in rawhide. How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 virt-install --help 2. virt-install --location http://some.fedora.mirror/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/ Actual results: 1. python backtrace says: ERROR:root:'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 120: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 497, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 341, in main options = parse_args() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 281, in parse_args (options,args) = parser.parse_args() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1378, in parse_args stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1418, in _process_args self._process_long_opt(rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1493, in _process_long_opt option.process(opt, value, values, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 782, in process self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 804, in take_action parser.print_help() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1648, in print_help file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace")) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 120: ordinal not in range(128) Expected results: no backtrace
(2. was a different bug seems to be assuming xen?)
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
A fix for this has been committed upstream: http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=94d1a32b1811
python-virtinst-0.400.0-0.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.400.0-0.fc9
python-virtinst-0.400.0-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.400.0-1.fc9
Still happens for me with python-virtinst-0.400.0-4.fc10.
Argh, I forgot to build the updated f10 package. This will be fixed in python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10. But this bug is against F9, and this should be fixed in python-virtinst-0.400.0-1.fc9. So please try with that version. Moving back to POST.
Whoops, okay, you moved it to F10. :) Moving to assigned, I'll address this with an updated package tomorrow.
python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10
python-virtinst-0.400.0-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update python-virtinst'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-10541
python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-virtinst'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-10810
python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
python-virtinst-0.400.0-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.