Description of problem: <mdomsch> scenario: yum downloads metadata (or tries to) while behind some captive access point <mdomsch> the AP lies and says "sure, here's the mirrorlist" <mdomsch> when in fact what you got was the AP's welcome page <mdomsch> packagekitd segfaults <mdomsch> from this <mdomsch> yum clean metadata, after getting past the AP's welcome page, is needed <skvidal> okay <skvidal> so yum's doing the right thing in that case <skvidal> bitching about the content of the mirrorlist <skvidal> the issue you're seeing is <skvidal> python's $$^$^#@!$#@!$ unicode support bitching b/c of the different encodings <skvidal> mdomsch: please file it, we'll fix the error message <skvidal> we just have to tell it to encode/decode that string <skvidal> it's not the end of the world <skvidal> just very irritating <mdomsch> thought you'd appreciate it <mdomsch> always trying to brighten your world - that's me :-) <skvidal> mdomsch: you see how it is trying to raise properly? <mdomsch> yep Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.14-10.fc9.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. connect to the network behind a FON captive access point 2. yum update Actual results: backtrace Expected results: no backtrace; fail to update naturally.
Created attachment 304919 [details] yum-behind-fonap.txt
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 446248 ***
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